Well this was an extremely fun kit to build. Most of the troubles were of my own making such as forgetting to put in the little armor plate behind the pilots head before I cemented the canopy on. The colors are Model Master acrylic RLM/65/79/80. For some reason I had some lift off of the 65 as you can see. I decided to make it as historically accurate as I could compared to the color pic, so I used the template and cut out all the spots with a fine ballpoint pen against a metal plate. That worked great. It took me about 3 hours to do all the "cutting" First time I used Alclad's Aqua Gloss and I was really happy with how that went on. The main issue I had was with the decals. Despite using micro set to place the smaller ones they just fell off. The red "____zu" decals are from another kit. I must admit that I did not place the number decals. I figured they would fall off too so I just used a fine black marker to make spots. I would like to thank Lawdog for all of his advice on this built. His assistance helped me to greatly improve my skills. I still have along way to go but I'm inching forward. Thanks for looking
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