It is looking very good. This was an interesting kit when it was released many years ago.
For a companion piece, if you have a Hobby Lobby nearby, they sell the 1/72 scale Bandai Star Wars kits like the original X-Wing, Poe's Boosted X-Wing and the standard Force Awakens X-Wing as well as several TIE fighters.
These are some of the finest Star Wars kits I have ever built. Their inventory varies and there are also smaller scale vehicles like 1/144 and 1/350 which would be too small.
Those kits are designed to not really require paint, like the TIE fighter panels are separately molded in a darker color.
They are quite reasonably priced if you use the 40% off coupon found online on in the Sunday paper.
I have an old 1984 issue of the Return of the Jedi one. You build makes me want to dig that one out and glue the loose pieces back onto it and paint it right.
Back then, the standard was to paint it grey or silver and lightly coat it with flat white to give it a realistic surface. Which is how I painted it.