Thanks guys.
I used a Rapidigraph pen #2 for most of the panel lines. The wing fold lines are drawn with a #2 ½ Rapidigraph pen. I have numerous detail pictures of “Sea Vixens” thanks to Airliner.net, and a poor 3 view, that shows some of the panel and door locations.
The location of door panels is “fudged” due to different proportions of the stunter. The doors are different on the top in the engine bay areas and there are red X’s to indicate no step areas. The red lines will be done with a #4 Rapidigraph pen using Rapidigraph red ink. There is a plastic model of the “Vixen” that shows some of the doors, but it is not even close to the actual airplane. Another option for the red lines is a red Sharpie, but the Sharpie lines tend to get wider as you use them.
Some of the old paint issues showed up, but hopefully I have most of them hidden. The actual airplane is finished in high gloss urethane, unlike so many military aircraft that are flat.
The panel lines are purposely under stated, and the top lettering on the real airplane is black in most cases, but there is some contrast between the black and the blue/gray color of the airplane. Weathering on many stunters is over done. I will never show hundreds of black rivets. I worked in the aerospace industry all of my life and we worked hard to make the rivets disappear. In many case we actual install rivets slightly high and shave the heads to make them totally disappear. I have never seen an airplane with every rivet head painted black!