Look forward to the pictures Leo!  I bet VG is pretty close though about "painting them with a broom"...  It's about like pictures of whatever you see online and then you see the real thing up close?  Sheesh!  LOL  I remember watching Baa Baa Black Sheep when I was a kid and the old mechanic saying "these things are held together with beer cans and baling wire".....  I bet most of those old warbirds looked like someone kicked them to pieces on a drunk Saturday night from prop to tail.  LOL  And you KNOW if they were patched wherever, whatever paint they had available was slapped on there with whatever whitewash brush or broom they had available at the time, probably still drying while they took to the air. Ah, anyway.....