@luftwaffe-birdman, @fiveten, thanks my friends. It is indeed amazing to see that they were experimenting with jets on the blade tips, and it even worked.

Painting started

Scheme of this helicopter is quite easy. Just one plain color for the surfaces and darkgrey/black for the landing gear piping. The masks provided by AMP did a real good job.
Weathering will be one of the next steps but just at a bare minimum since this V4 protoype only was airborn for 25 hours.

I don’t know how I missed this til now, John. Very interesting. I’ve never heard of this chopper before and you’re doing a fine job on it.

Decals

Decals on this aircraft are minimal, just the codes with crosses on the side and the Swastikas (existing of two parts).
They laid down pretty nice.
I also attached the propellor used for the forward movement. This was a PE part and therefore pretty thin but required gentle handling.
Wheels mounted as well on the fragile frame.
Next will be mounting the remaining small parts and the main rotor before calling this one done.

This is looking great John @johnb. And nice job on the landing gear especially the mains. I just read that part on how you had to assemble that area.

• and well done it is! Very interesting early bird.

Well done also from here, my friend @johnb! Your build thread was a joy to follow!