Thanks Hans, I've got a big bottle of rubber cement and I'll hit the old paint mule with some and give that a try next time I consider doing serious wear to a model. 

I'm a little late seeing this, but I also love this airplane,  I have a number of Tamiya & Hasegawa 1/48 kits in the stash along with 2 Revell /Takara 1/32 kits, and one 1/24 Bandai kit.  One of my upcoming projects is to convert a 1/48 N1K1 to the N1K1 prototype with contra-rotating props.