Thanks for your kind words, Wannabe Farmboy! This is what we call a 'nice clean build'. Just like coming out of Tamiya catalog, no weathering. I asked "Art Instructor" why didn't he weather this one. He said he'd weathered so much of this type (7/2) already. So he wanted to do it differently this time.
More typical work from him, this one is Trumpeter:
This one is Tamiya's: