Thanks guys for all your wonderful comments, I will try and answer some of your questions.
Ian - I don't wear gloves when handling the model, what I do is to wrap a tissue around the fuselage and tape it to itself, this gives me a good place to hold and manhandle the model without causing any marks on the paint work. No matter how clean you might think your hands are there is always marks left on the model if handled too often.
GCN - I found the Gunze Brown Violet to be a pretty good match to what is shown in the instruction book, it does not show up as the true colour in the photos, it appears to be more green where in actual fact it is leaning more towards brownish green.
Pete - Definitely get one, it is a brilliant kit and is so easy to build, you will not be sorry.
Dave - If you built this model OOB you would have a fantastic looking model, Wingnuts have everything you need in the box apart from rigging lines. All I did was to add fuselage rigging lines inside the fuselage, control column, rudder control cable and ignition leads to the engine. The only bit of detailing I have done, but this was for my own benefit only, was to hollow out the venturi and add cross pieces to the inlet.
Chuck - The control cables at the rear end, rudder and elevators, had turnbuckles, these will be added using my own home made variety. The wing rigging will be done using 0.12mm monofilament, I don't like the flat rigging material now available. The top wing will have small eyelets glued into the underside of the wing, the bottom wing will have a new idea I am still playing with, a short length of 0.4mm brass tube with the mono glued inside and a small brass nut to look like the adjusting nut, the brass tube will have a slight bend and be glued directly into the wing - this is an experiment so I will keep you informed if it works.
Ivo - The struts on this model have excellent locating pins and holes, each pin and hole is a different shape so the struts can't be mixed up and placed in the wrong hole. I fitted the two forward cabane struts first, these are an excellent fit and sit exactly where they are supposed to be, I then fitted the rear cabanes but checked the top wing fitment before gluing the struts just to make sure they line up with the holes. Once the cabanes are fixed in position the rest of the struts are very simple, glue each strut into position and with a straight edge run it along the top of the struts, they should all line up as a straight line. Wingnuts have made this task very easy as most of the struts lined up without any need of adjustment.
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