Assembled, with more care and attention than the kit deserves. Which is to say I didn't just twist the pieces off the sprue, push them together with copious amounts of glue (from a tube, no needle tips or extra thin nonsense) and call it a day. There's some noteworthy gaps between the fuselage and canopy in the front and air intake in the rear, but with my mouth still feeling like a sandpit after filling and sanding the gaps between the fuselage halves I decided handle that with the technique known as "fuck it, I can't be arsed". Especially since the latter would be hell to reach for sanding while for the canopy the actual windows appear to run right to the edge of the part. Or maybe it's just that the hair-thin raised panel lines that show where the windows are go from nearly invisible to just not existing at all on the sides. One rotor blade was broken btw, had to be pinned. I also noticed in the manual that there should be a decal for the instrument panel, #1. Decal #1 on the sheet is a Swedish three-crowns roundel.
Overall this is a kit that deserves all of the skill and patience of your average eight year old, but none of the love and joy.
>>8641104Colour conversion charts are often at best well informed guesswork and approximations. When you want to get as close as possible the best bet is usually to start with finding out what the real colour was and then try to find either some paint that matches it or how to get a match with the paint brands you have available. Where to buy, well, whatever online store has what you want at decent prices.
As for the guy's judgement, well, the cap on the bottle looks to be roughly the right hue, so I guess he may have gone off of that. Unfortunately the correlation between the cap colour and the paint itself is rarely any better than "well, they're both kinda red".
