Hi,

I saw this kit at a local hobby shoptoday.

It seems to be for some sort of futuristic Robot Transport VTOL from some Japanese Anime that I am not familiar with.  In general giant robots anime isn't something I follow much, but the aircraft looked interesting and not overaly expensive, so I bought it.  Although the craft has a recess in its underside where the top of a giant robot could be carried, I think that I may try and fill it in and make the model into more of a generic all-round VTOL type transport/gunship.

The kit actually appears to be a Snap-Fit kit in a couple colors, plus a smokey clear for the canopy, but I ended up gluing it together to make sure nothing gets knocked off.  It went together really well, and there is a bit of clever engineering in how some of the parts are put together to give them extra rigidity (especially the vertical tails ).  Here is where I am so far.

I went for an Earthy colored base coat in part because it was what I had readily available, but also because I think it might help give the finished build a bit more of an other worldly look than just going with the base drab green recommended in the instructions.  I'm still not very ggod at spray painting but I may try and do a little masking and spraying with a lighter color to give it a more camoflage final look.

Pat