thanks for the tips guys! ksonn, please go ahead and email those pics to me at [email protected] i have a high-speed connection there. Also, please share what you used for the 'wash' and to thin it. I have been using testors enamels so far and plan on using lustrecoat clear when it's all said and done....much like you did. I'm just in the process of spraying some clear gloss in the the stencil areas so i can get the water slide decals to lay flush, then i will clear coat over them again before the flat lustrecoat clear coat. thanks