After reading a few of the build threads on here, I realized it may seem like Im doing mine a little backwards.
The reason I chose to have it painted first is because my painter had room for it, and I was about to be gone overseas for work for a couple months. Seemed like a good time to have him knock out the color change.
So after he got started, he was able to send me a few progress pics here and there.
Sorry for the images being sideways. still don't have the picture uploading thing figured out.