[Whiterook]

Actually, that really can't be classified as "blathering", Mate, as you made very very good points; and you touch on an interesting line of thought: paint as you go, or en masse. I personally think I'll paint in a completed groiping more often than not, though there are times when painting and then applying makes perfect sense....you can always "adjust and blend" later, if not on final coats, then on weathering. I think weathering is also a modeller's "last chance" to camouflage those points that maybe didn't work out so well. For instance on this latter point, on a Panther I built "elsewhere", my first decal I had applied since the '70s! broke in half between the decal sheet and the model. I paniced! By the time I tried to "rescue" it, I totally obliterated the sucker!!! Solution: Paint in "weather damaged" section of the numbers, and adjust the rest. Damned if it didn't look better that what just the clean decal would have looked like.