"now I'm having second thoughts on whether or not to glass and paint or just use the monkeykote."

Smacks Crash upside the head!

Dude, your not going to build that beautiful Mustang then plastic shrink wrap it? No way! We won't let you!

Time to go on a high fiber diet! Go get lots of big cheap boxes of cereal and start eating! Two a week. Now take the empty boxes and practice painting those until your ready to paint by next Spring. After 48 P-51 painted boxes you should be a HVLP expert.