My first intent was to copy Tom Wardens purple Minado exactly. But I could never, ever get the colors right. I ended up paining over the purple silk. The original has about ten different shades of metalic to dark purple, from Plymouth as I understand it. So I just went for the "flavor" so to speak. By taking so long to finish, a ton of hanger rash has occured. Not to proud of the end result, but I got it about ready to fly.Too bad this one, an actual copy of the original, isn't kitted. I'd buy two. No joke.