Missed the latest until just now.
You might as well make your own struts, you'd have to work hard to make them as bad as the kit parts.
The fishplate detail on the Roden aside, a coat of paint and nobody will notice the U/C struts next to the outstanding Camo and great detailing you have done. You may have spent some time refining them, but you would have easily spent twice the time scratch building them.
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