To take from a Guiness commercial...

Genius!  

I tried the align method several times and just could not get it right.  I am going back to the woodshed on this as soon as I can get Chapters 1 - 3 finished up for my committee chair.  

Would you believe the desire to avoid my dissertation drove me to learn to repaint aircraft?  

I noticed on the most recent repaint that your fuselage center section had a darker hue than the front or empennage.  I ran into this myself quite a bit.  

Can anyone tell me how to duplicate the "gi" layer in the paintkit?  Is this a gradient layer or a color?  All I know is that it wreaks havoc on matching colors from front to back.