Looking awesome, my friend @michaelt!

Top surfaces. I took the same approach but the dark colour means it wasn’t as effective. I may go over them with a lightened colour.
The wings and tail are just sitting in place.

Even though the effect is less, it does look great, Michael @michaelt
Lighten some panels a bit will definitely increase the effect.

I mixed a little white into the Sea Blue and over sprayed the fabric control surfaces, to fade them, and random blotches on the metal surfaces. I then lightly over sprayed the latter with straight Sea Blue to blend things together.
In the right light, the wing now has a mix of blues with a little of the green apparent, but this is probably not apparent in the photo.

Indeed, the painting result is very realistic, my friend @michaelt!

Great job so far, my friend @michaelt!

This is the only photo I can find of the actual aircraft I’m building.

And this is my go at painting the fuselage.

Unfortunately, over handling the model by the tail broke the rudder off.

I painted the sea blue and white first and was going to mask, with a raised paper mask, and paint the intermediate blue, but I found that the modelling gods were smiling on me and I managed to do it freehand.

I did the random spray technique again and then added some white to both the sea blue and int. blue and applied a light, random mottle.

Great result on the freehanded painting, Michael @michaelt
Also the mottling looks very nice.