Alecs Sekularac's Lavochkins

Alec used the Vector 1/48 resin kit for his La-5 build, and the Gavia 1/48 kit for the La-7 (the grey one for those of us not well up on the minutiae of the Lavochkin design bureau), painted in horribly expert style with Colourcoats.  Why don't mine turn out like that?  (Answers NOT required).