Wow, John (@johnb). Stripes came out perfectly. And the colors are very distinctive.

What a pity, John.
It looks a superb paint job to me though.
I wouldn’t even have noticed the mix up of colors if you hadn’t mentioned it, but I can understand your concern.

Stuff like this can be a real mojo killer, John (@johnb). I suspect I would blame the crew chief for painting the stripes in the wrong order on the only color picture you could find. I think I would ignore it. :o)

@alfred, @fiveten, @gblair, @eb801, thanks a lot all. Blaming the crew would be a valid excuse, but likely it will drive me nuts indeed each time when I look at the model. Therefore I'm definitely going to try to reverse the colors. With the decals on it might be an ever bigger challenge. Decals and masking tape are not a perfect combination.

@gblair, thanks for this tip, George. After reading your post, I tried it on the black stripe and painted it red. Now removed the masks and paper and all seems fine, no damage to the decals. Now on to the black stripe.

Colors of the rear fuselage stripes are repainted. I started transforming the black into red with the approach mentioned by George @gblair, protecting the decals with paper to prevent any damage.

I over-sprayed the existing stripes which was maybe not the best approach because it could create thick layers. After the first stripe it looked quite acceptable, at least to me.

No issues with the black stripe either. A bit of bleeding still needs to be corrected .

Re-striping worked out well, John (@johnb). I would have bet you would have gotten a big paint buildup, but it looks awesome.

@alfred, @gblair, @fiveten, thanks a lot all. To be honest, I was also expecting a bit more issue on the repaint. Let's hope the next steps will be as "easy" as well.