So, decorating done, spent a cheeky while afterwards on spraying Danny Boy. Superstructure now in final coat, it will still need the clear coat when everything finished. Hull has first coats of the red. Next steps will be marking the waterline, spraying the black upper part then painting the white waterline between the two. Think I’ll do the clear coat on the hull once painting has been finished to give it some protection as I already noticed a faint mark from a fingernail on the red primer, so it must be quite soft (but will hopefully harden up overnight).
Still trying to work out the technique for the waterline, I was going to spray a band of white, put Tamiya tape where I want the waterline to be, then spray above and below with red and black, finally remove the Tamiya tape to reveal the white waterline. However, now thinking this may not be so good as getting the red primer to cover the white top coat might not be so good. Might resort to two lines of Tamiya tape now and paint the waterline in between them.