I agree with you about having to cut the mesh. Italeri used to do that too. Many recent Zvezda kits are excellent quality, if sometimes a little over-engineered, but with annoying features (like the difficult to follow instructions). I built their 1:350 Arktika icebreaker recently and it is not cheap (+£60 in UK) and for that price should include etched railings which are standard in most other companies for ships that scale. I have my doubts the Armata will ever go into serious production. Tank design and tactics are undergoing some radical rethinking at the present due to the large scale advent of drones.
