Thanks Guys,
And Wolfhammer , the kit is a very well engineered kit except for the short injected canopies I received. The only thing I could say is try to get the Eduard mask set to save a lot of headaches.
All the black line demarcations (which are supplied as decals which I did not use) were masked and painted on. It just looks better this way. I used the Tamiya tape for curves for the back fuselage yellow section black lines.
And as I said before the letters and numbers decals are quite large so to avoid any silvering at all, they were very carefully cut out with a new #11 blade. (I use the excel double honed as they are much sharper than regular x-acto blades).
All canopies were dipped in Future and C'A'd on very sparingly for a good bond.
I black based this model but it is very hard to see the paint variation in the photos.