Hey, Abu! Thanks for your kind words, greatly appreciated!
As you can see it hasn't even been painted yet. We're leaving that until after the maiden. Then we'll know if it's worth using up all those rolls of Flite Metal we bought for it. Nothing looks more like aluminium than real aluminium, but that stuff's expensive. We did paint on some national insignia and some de-icing boots, as it looked a bit bare without them. Hopefully everything will be fine [8D] and in a while she'll look terrific.