Wow....I hadn't noticed how much traffic this auction had generated. Since I was the lucky winner of this auction, let me add some fodder for this conversation.
1. The diorama was not part of the auction. It was just used to display the toy.
2. The valk was indeed painted with TEAL highlights and a GREEN heatshield. However, I knew this going in and was not surprised by the colors.
3. The TEAL highlights were very poorly done. Looks like someone took teal Tamiya paint right out of the bottle (w/o diluting or mixing) and hand applied it to the Valk and did not use masking tape. The teal paint spills over.
4. The Armor set was thankfully complete.
5. I've already sent a PM to one of our local customizers to see if he is interested in either 1) cleaning up the butchered paint job or 2) doing a custom paint job.
I'll put some pics up later.