Chris, Mark, Charles,
Thanks for all the helpful advice. I will practice with my airbrush today and hope to paint this weekend (temps are supposed to be in the mid 50's). Mark, why did you paint the white first? I was planning on doing the crosses after the camo, though I guess the white will have a harder time covering the camo than it would over the primer.
Rick
It was how I brainstormed the sequence,, The masks for the insignia ( crosses and fuse markings) were cut but not weeded,, applied over the white base, then everything else was painted.. I then pulled the section of the insignia mask off that I wanted black, masked the ends of the openings between the eventual black area, and the camo area, sprayed the black, pulled the mask from the white portion of the insignia,, and poof, done,,
covering the camo with white is HEAVY, leaves a big hump/edge and jus tmakes life more difficult in general. I thought my solution was pretty elegant in the long run,, ( I spend more time planning the paint phase than I do painting, in fact many of my paint schemes are driven more by how to sequence than by ultimately what I would like to do)
also, as is mentioned by Fred, paint is translucent to some extent, some colors worse than others, but definetly, the color of the substrate will impact the finished color.
In fact now days in the automotive world of collision repair, you have tintable sealers and a formula to create the proper shade of grey to apply prior to applying the color in order to get the color to match...