I'm in nowhere near the category that Jeremy and Greg are, those guys are topgun material painters, but I used $5 in Tamiya water based acrylic (metallic gold and metallic blue) with a rustoleum clear and my trusty badger airbrush for my hot section. It literally took me about an hour.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/paint...ic-paint-59000

I'm sorry, but that just couldn't be beat in my good ole college try to paint my own jet.

My apologies to even post in a thread where the paint masters are imparting knowledge.