I bought this on ebay as a Christmas present to myself and made it up over a couple of weekends.
It was easy to glue together, but there were a couple of large gaps I had to fill with PVA. Painting was easy enough to do with a 8mm flat brush - but getting the right colour was a pain. I tend to use Tamiya paints (or Revell Aqua Colour). In this case, I had a bit of a trek to the local model shop and spent a long time trying to get a yellow colour as it was too cold to do any spray painting for the basecoat outside.
I dully selected Revell Aqua Lufthansa yellow and did 2 coats. Yikes. What a mistake that was. It was a horrfic, shiny (not matt!) yellowish orange. Mmmmm. Due to the model shop being a pain to get to, I decided to mix in some duck egg blue to get a light tan/sand colour. Again, I did 2 coats. Eeeek! lime green colour was the result. So, I tried again, addign red in, drop by drop. I finally got a good tan colour.
I used Tamiya Flat Earth XF-52 for the dark brown bits.
The display stand was really easy to paint as well. Sadly, I snapped one of the pegs off, so used my glue on that and it seems all ok.
The detail of the model moulds is really good. I did the windows the "cheat" way with a red fine tipped marker pen.
I weathered it by using some heavily watered down black paint and streaked it across with my flat brush.
Phew. I estimate it took ~30hrs to build up.
Lesson Learned - paint in the daylight if possible to avoid colour disappointments!
Does anyone have any of the clear "triangular" bits - sadly I'm missing one. I painted it and suspect it went in the bin.
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