I see what you mean about the color contrast of the topside colors between your and Dmitry's builds. There could be other reasons than the paint, eg lighting, his is gloss, yours not, etc.. I won't even venture a guess. Hope you can get it finished with out launching it into a wall.

I used the colors that came in their Model Air RAF Dayfighter Set: topside; 71.048 Dark sea grey & 71.016 U.S. Dark green, bottom side; 71.047 U.S. Grey. I added some to lighten the centers of the panels.

This thing has really started fighting me every inch of the way. The yellow on the wing's leading edge needs painted & then I think it is ready for decals. I believe I have spent more time touching up lifted paint than actually spraying. It is gloss coated with Future right now to help prevent paint lift & damage. I am hoping when it gets the final dull coat the colors will lighten.

I've run into an issue that I am going to need to cheat on. I've laid out the camo & stripes for MN317 which I have since realized had a 3-blade prop ( the kit has a 4-blade) so I'm going to use the one from the Academy kit. It actually mates up to the Airfix nose fairly well. Just need to bevel the base plate a little more, however after looking at this prop the blades resemble a paddle so the blade width is going to need thinning.

Still shooting for a D-Day completion.

3 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Al ,this is starting to look really good, looking forward to seeing it on Friday.
N.

The darkness of the colors is part of my frustration with Vallejo paints. I used the colors in their RAF day fighter set & they all appear to be too dark. Probably should have lightened them as Rick mentioned earlier but I'm too far into the project to go backwards. In my opinion even allowing for 1/72nd scale you should not need to lighten them as much as you would need to.