These past few weeks, I have been fussing with assembling the whole model. Putting in the optical fibers, rigging up the lights, and supergluing stuff. I also painted on the red stripes and paint chipped them. Thank you, Analyzer for the Tamiya hull red paint suggestion. 33% that + 66% flat red + 5% flat white got me the color I kinda wanted. It is almost right, but I think if I am to make another block runner, I would go with 25% hull red + 75% flat red + 15% flat white. Its always hard to experiment on a model this big...
The next and final step is weathering. I hope to get 90% of that done in the next 3 weeks, and finish up the remaining 10% in the next 3 years.