[Excuse me, just sweeping the cobwebs away from this thread]
Some progress: after cleaning up the emergent-work seams etc I re-did the grey undercoat, then sprayed white where the invasion stripes, nose band and national insignia will go. Having masked those out with the masks I cut and oodles of Tamiya tape ...
... I sprayed some X1 gloss black where the silver (wings) and NM will go.
Since then I've sprayed and masked the O/D anti-glare panel, and done the lacquered areas of the wings with X11 silver.
Next job, my patent I-don't-use-metallisers natural metal.