After seeing Karve's version, it got me motivated enough to pull the Bucket out of my stash.
I thought I'd follow a fairly similar painting scheme, but shifted to a base of dark gull gray over a black primer since I had the parts pack with the decals for the area where the flight bays retract into.
So far, much has been the basics - prime, prime, and prime.
I'm very impressed with the fit of this kit.
The decals made it nice and easy to locate the red LED's on the main hull although I think I about went blind working with the 0402 SMD's. The gatorhead waas probably the easiest of all the lighting since I just follewed Karve's lead and put in an LED strip and drilled the windows.
Next step - wiring up the rest of the engines and mounting the flight pods to the hull.
Joe