[:-]knowing what I know now I would simply have applied a light coat of Croma Base Black "base coat and followed by the dark red metallic followed by a wet coat of Duponts Dis cont. Croma Base clear. So I'm in the process of wet sanding all the red wing and fuselage and shooting a light black base coat followed by a light wet sanding using super fine wet or dry sand paper used wet and then shooting the color followed by a 'wet coat' of some existing stock Dupont Croma Clear (now D.C ) So I will mask every thing and post ....