Snoopy, thanks for your comments, I'm kinda sure that the swastika was painted Gray, I was expecting it to be painted red, but i think that would look like a target during the war for aircraft, i'm not sure. I think that i'll go with Tamiyas instructions and keep it gray and white. I did some google image searches and some of the pics it brought up were painted so that all of the horizontal surfaces were painted in decking timber colour (on the super structure), which i was sure wasn't right. So i'm doing all of the super structure gray with some pastel weathering for depth.
Does anyone know any good tricks for getting the black and white stripes up the sides of the hull and superstructure straight? that looks like it could be a challenge.
MBT70, yep got the maori thing going on here. They are like any peole group, there are the ones that want to fit into society, and those that want to have everthing given to them for free... as it was their country first (150 years ago)... if you know what i mean. I kinda like them, most of them (less the extremeists) have a great personality and good sense of humour. Yep we are the first to see in the new millenium except for a small island somewhere. It's kinda cool, we do the new years thing, then watch on tv for the next 12 hours everyone else doing it... by the tme america comes around, its like so yesterday for us... Ha, kiddin
Thanks again.
Alan