You're looking at a pretty big project....Since you already own the DVD's I wouldn't feel to guilty about downloading a torrent where the work has already been done.
The '19 was by far the easiest build from their 1/72 line.....I guess it makes sense that they would go with this particular Valk for their new foray into 1/48.
Hopefully it gets a a lot more detail because the 1/72 was severely lacking in details......Can't wait either way !!
Tamiya flat base is pretty hard to work with if you don't have your ratios right.....It can leave a 'chalky' finish.
If you have an airbrush, you really can't go wrong using Testors/Model Master Acryl Flat.
You should all go back and re-watch the 1st few minutes of episode #1 as it starts off pretty far in the future and then time skips back to the past where the story starts out.
FWIW, Here's the cast:
Emile Hirsch - Speed
Christina Ricci - Trixie
Matthew Fox - Racer X
Susan Sarandon - Mom Racer
John Goodman - Pops Racer
Kick Gurry - Sparkie
Seems like pretty decent casting IMO.
IMDB.com
333 is Extra Dark Sea Gray (FS36118)
British Standard Colors
108 is something called Character Red
http://ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff...mrcolor_map.htm