TP-LINK RE450 v1 (64MB RAM) bricked

Need help to restore RE450 UK v1 (64MB RAM) to stock firmware.
I was running Openwrt 19.07.5 and was running into memory issues, so decided to try a snapshot build and while trying to configure someting via CLI my device got bricked - All light blinking simultaneously.

I tried to restore via serial connection as mentioned by @Heinz in:

Also for 64MB guide from:

with no luck. Please help me to restore the device as this was a very expensive purchase for me.

My current errors:

## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Too big uncompressed streamLZMA ERROR 1 - must          RESET board to recover

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Dec 15 2017 - 15:14:35)

ap135 - Scorpion 1.0

DRAM:  64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 134k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x1
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
Scorpion  ----> AR8033 PHY *
AR8033 PHY init
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x50a0214f
Autobooting in 1 seconds
scorpion>
Unknown command 'tpl' - try 'help'
scorpion>
scorpion> tftpboot 0x81000000 re450bs.bin
Trying eth0
Checking Link: Up
Checking Duplex: Full
Checking Speed 1000BaseT
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.10; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 're450bs.bin'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: #################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 3992944 (3ced70 hex)
scorpion> erase 0x9f020000 +$filesize
Erase Flash from 0x9f020000 to 0x9f3effff in Bank # 1
First 0x2 last 0x3e sector size 0x10000                                       62
Erased 61 sectors
scorpion> cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f020000 $filesize
Copy to Flash... write addr: 9f020000
done
scorpion> reset

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Dec 15 2017 - 15:14:35)

ap135 - Scorpion 1.0

DRAM:  64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 134k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x1
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
Scorpion  ----> AR8033 PHY *
AR8033 PHY init
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x50a0214f
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Too big uncompressed streamLZMA ERROR 1 - must          RESET board to recover

I could recover to Openwrt upgrade build with the following commands:

tftp 0x81000000 openwrt.bin
erase 0x9f020000 +$filesize
cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f020000 $filesize
reset

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