Nah, it's too nice a kit to hack up. If I was going to do that i'd have started with the Airfix version which while also being nice is not as nice as the Eduard.
This is going to be a straightforward relaxing quick almost OOB build with minimal PSR and no scratchbuilding.
A palette cleanser if you like.
Also, I realised I had bought a number of Eduard kits but hadn't built any of them yet.