Thanks for the comments, well most of them...
Just finished the rear trim and key slots and applied the grey. Next is the purple/ maroon layer so we are starting to get somewhere at last.
Here is a quick teaser of a colour test I'm working on using Tamiya acrylics, I'll start a thread in due course...
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