Eric….very wonderful build of one of my all time favorite kits. I tried to build it when I was 18 and I sprayed it Candy Transparent Red but…….I painted the flip front separately from the body. No problem until you consider that I paid no attention to counting coats or moving the pieces close together to check progress. Just painted merrily away through the afternoon only to discover I put way more coats on one piece than the other so when I mocked it up the next day it looked like it was shot with 2 different types of red!! What a dummy I was. So, knowing nothing about stripping paint and starting again I just turned the kit into a parts donor for other projects. At least I got to utilize most of the parts but the body got furecrackered!
Anyhow your build took me down a funny memory lane and I thought you and our friends on this site might get a laugh.
Again Eric yours is a super build-Mark