Wow!! Great comments one and all.......I'm feeling a lot better about this build now that the Red is on. Good advice 570, but that Alclad I put on is thin as water about 5-10% pigment and the rest of the bottle is vehicle to get it out of the airbrush. I have brush worked silver in the past and if you don't faff around with it too much it looks like chrome plating when dry. Tim, Semi gloss after decaling might just be a good option....will file it away till I get the "stickers" on this birdie. I still have the yellow wing stripes to go and that's it for basic colors. Then comes all the detail painting and finally the decals..........stay tuned.