So, more than a year later, I've come back to this and tried to repaint all the bits I stripped. I didn't really want to do the "main" colour of the MS as a glossy/metallic colour, I prefer to have a matt look overall so that the gloss of secondary parts stands out. Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos of the bit that annoyed me most; the white primer I used picked up the colour from the red plastic, so the red ended up covering very unevenly as there were some parts which were still primed black in places, etc. The paint's a bit "orange-peely" in places, but that bothers me less. I'll touch up the paint and then give it a matt finish overall when I'm done, I think.
I'll gloss coat the whole thing and do decals/panel lines on the red parts sometime this week probably. Nice to finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with this old build, after all the hassle I've had with my recent starts. Weirdest thing for me personally is how much these photos look like they were taken at my old apartment, because the window is really similar. >_>;
