Thanks to all that have commented and hope you stay along for the ride.
One thing or another has kept me away from the bench. Managed to find little snippets of time to get this far. Right color or not is not the case here. Matching the color PE was paramount in my mind. I am pretty happy with the match. It was achieved with 3 Tamiya colors instead of the 2 color Gunze recipe since I don't have a local source for Gunze paint. I bought a resin cockpit upgrade forgetting that had the ProfiPack kit but it's nice anyway since it gave me more options on how the get the pit together.
A couple of cockpit tub picks, the seat all done up... sadly no stencils of the seat in the kit or the resin cockpit... and finally a quick mock up.