Carefull with the rattle can stuff, read the fine print and make sure it is 100% acrylic laquer. I quickly painted a 1/2 a C/L plane with rattle can Plastikot truck an van paint, for my son years ago. Despite having fuel all over it the paint held up well. The competition C/L stunt guys use it all the time, it goes over nitrate dope, as well as butyrate. But ususally they apply one to two coats nitrate as a sealer, three to 10 coats of aluminum butyrate as a sealer, sanding the dope till the wood shows on all but the last coat or two.
That's great news. For the Kadet, it will be going onto polyester fabric sealed with 3 coats of nitrate dope. For other aircraft I was thinking of dope and tissue for the base, then the acrylic for the color trim. I covered a Hots with Polyspan years ago and it was a great material. I think a Dirty Birdy would look awesome with it on the open bay stuff and tissue on the fuse and only color trim. That would let you see the structure under the translucent covering and look awesome.[8D]
Mark