Except for painting one or two cowels and a helicopter (made of some kind of thin clear plastic) about 18 years ago, this was my first attempt at painting this bleach-bottle stuff. I learned a few things, and made some mistakes, but it didn't turn out too badly.

By the way, I hadn't flown helis for about 18 years previous to this Caliber, it was solid right out of the box - with the GY401 helping (I'd never flown with a gyro before) I was hovering pretty solidly after running half a tank checking tracking, etc. So far seems to be a pretty good machine - I was most impressed with the tightness of all the preassembled parts (after hearing stories in the past several years about having to disassemble and locktite/tighten hardware).

This was also my first attempt at making my own water-slide decals, they worked a lot better than I expected.