You've got a point there. The scratch that took 3 hrs came out pretty good, too. Up close it looks real good and from about 3 feet it looks REAL compaired to the rest of my which has yet to have had any sort of "damage" done. I'm pretty good with hand painting these things as my experience with model planes has shown to be quite useful.
My main mistake was not painting the entire silver first though. I thought I would be able to apply the scratches on top of the main colors easily, but I guess not. Oh well. I'll post a pic or 2 when I get some more done and dremel out the visor area.