The paint on the Matorro KT out of the box is pretty terrible, it looks nothing much like the photos at the Matotoys site, the brown (or wht is supposed to be brown) in reality looks more like some kind of cheap reddish/purple lipstick... I mean it's just awful, and what's worse is the whole thing has a very plasticky sheen to it that makes it look very toyish in my opinion. Honestly, I think you will want to repaint it if you want it look any good at all. I knew I would repaint mine the moment I took it out of the box, and here's a couple of pics of the results... still much to be done, but overall I'm quite pleased with the look, it's based on an actual KT in a museum in France.