I'll be joining the party with the 1/72 A-wing fighter.
Inside the box is the expected bunch of multi-coloured sprues. Since the A-wing is really a little runt, Bandai decided to fill out the bow with a rather more elaborate base for this one, including a Death Star surface tower, which takes up a complete sprue.
Painting requirements may be limited, but there is some work to be done there, and paint needs time to dry. A lot of time, unless you use acrylics, and acrylics needs primer, which brings me right back to paint needing a lot of time to dry. Ideally then, I'd do the priming on day one, get some sleep, and continue on day two. Problem with that is that in this case, I can't just indiscriminately blast primer over everything, and I'm not really up to precise masking at the end of the day, in the dead of night, before staggering into bed.
So, I'm going to try something daft, and use gloss varnish as a primer. This will, hopefully, give the acrilics I intend to use for actual painting something to hang on to, serve as a decent base for the decals, and keep the colours as they are. Exception to this is the pilot, which will get the more traditional grey primer.
Down side to all this: this blitz is going to have a really boring start late today, with the action only starting when between 8 and 10 hours of the allotted time have passed tomorrow morning.
. Well, the glossy ones anyway. I used a different varnish on the base, and that at least is perfectly usable. The main ship sprues are now parked outside, in the sun, and in the wind. Hopefully this will teach them some manners in a hurry, or this will go from a blitz to a fizzle in no time flat.