I am sure you're asking yourself right now, what happened to the darker base color on this baby, the answer is, it is still there but since my skills in photography are so down in the cellar, I couldn't capture it underneath the other colors but if you zoom in a million times, you can catch a glimpse of it, around Bucks eyes, ears, legs, thighs and tail but it is not worth the trouble. The base of Buck is finished, and only needs to be varnished now, while our Peryton himself is still missing a lot of colors, like his hooves are still not painted, his antlers weren't even touched at all and of course his eyes, he is still looking soulless up into the air, just to name a few....my patience is running out again!