Yes you can paint over monokote. Rough up the surface to be painted 400 grit and you can use Lustre kote I think rustoleum works also. There should be a couple of threads on that farther down.

The "Fusion" paint does not do well with fuel. In fact, if I had to remove Fusion, I would use 5%nitro fuel. Not really, but you get my point. I put Fusion on my beater Cardinal, sticks to monocote real good, til fuel touchs it.

Here is a pic of my Cardinal, the yellow on the tips is Fusion, the horizontal surfaces are monocote, the yellow around the fues is Fusion.

A clear poly urethane topcoat may help, I did not put a top coat on mine.

I have used appliance epoxy paint before, and it is VERY fuel proof to 25%. I fear it may crack on monocote tho. The white of the fues is epoxy paint white.

Greg

Used to was, long time ago, I managed to paint clear Monokote with AeroGloss.

Pretended to plasticize the AG with several drops of castor per pint - which never seemed to dissolve. They'd settle out in the bottom of the can by the next time I popped the lid.

Never used any grade of sandpaper or steel wool, either. Just a fairly wet wash with fresh acetone and hands off the target area. Sprayed fairly thinned AG, lightly, building up layers gradually.

Almost impossible to mask - low adhesion - but a very quick and LIGHT way to a nice finish for that time. If the wood job was good enough to look nice under $Kote, the finish looked nicer.

Lost the last survivor recently - a model built in the early 1980's. Most of the AG remained, but the expansion/contraction of the plastic film over the years made a very spotty finish by the time the ground rose up and bit it.

With today's materials and supplies NOT a part of that experiment, I'm reading this thread with interest.