It's not painted as it's up for auction and ready for the new owner to paint in their own colours - but I intend to buy it so it will appear later painted by me - hopefully!
My comment on painting-fu was about my general figure painting though...
Wag my old boy this is a very nice converstion very WW2 ish look foeward to seeing it with paint. BTW there is nothing wrong with your paint Fu I like it.
The blue sides are from a couple of old school rhinos - the beige plastic ones, as for the rest it's various bits and pieces from my box and amounts of foam board, plastic card and strip etc. So I'd say yes, totally built from scratch but having pre-manufactured items included in the construction.
Just checked my album at it's my 2nd highest score at 5.6 (my highest was 5.7 for a scratchbuilt war walker). One day I'll break the 6.0 barrier - if I live that long