Be-a-u-tiful, Senor! I hate hop on your bandwagon (Two Falcons in a row, WOW), but I've been busy over the last two weeks, and was able to get a little work done (not totally true--I've done a LOT).
I haven't been able to get progress uploaded until today. I apologize for this rather lengthy post.
First off, I chose a pale green for the "other color" (for some reason it doesn't appear that green in my photos):
With that painted, I finished the side walls and mandible "inserts", then glued the whole mess together:
As you can see, I started with the weathering, just enough to add some details (at this point, the side walls were "finished"). I chose to paint them grey to reflect the ship's "original" color scheme. I also painted a select few cables.
Then came the canopy, which was masked with the included paint masks, then spray painted with regular ol' semi-gloss black spray paint, then glued into the cockpit arm:
with the masks removed, the canopy came out awesomely:
and that's where it sat for a few days (though I didn't paint the canopy until last Tuesday and didn't unmask the canopy until Thursday).
To avoid overly-lenghthy posts, I'll do a second post following this one....