Thanks for the kind words! It took me over a year to finish this model. After getting the kit and starting on it, it got shelved almost immediately as I got into a new hobby: painting fishing lures. That took over my workshop for a while. Once that slowed down, I pulled out the lonely model box on the bookshelf and started on it again. I made lots of mistakes on this as I was learning new techniques (preshading, PE parts, aftermarket canopy masks, etc.) and re-familiarizing myself with the basics of plastic modeling.