Hi Donnie
I Am a little forward of what you have seen so far. The amount of detail included in the kit is incredible, a tribute to the Trumpeter people. You will see soon a toilet including a separate seat and a separate cover. The castings are really something to see. As far as the painting, everything that is not the base gray of the molded plastic is painted by me. There are a lot of pieces where the base gray of the plastic is so close to recommended paint color that I left the unpainted plastic as is. If you look at the torpedo tubes and the main body of the torpedo, these are unpainted areas. Everything else is painted, mostly by hand, sometimes with a 10/0 brush. I'll get some more pics up soon. Thx. Jim