I'm very late to the party Eric but have to comment on your work to date: what a beauty! Lovely work on the interior, neat avoidance of the kit's far too common pitfall (paint in those former indents) and you've chosen a really nice scheme. FWIW I've found that getting a variation on tone on the different panels failed using varying base colors and was far easier with the oil paint woodgrain application, I'll be interested to see what your experience is here.
Keep up the great work, this one's a real winner!
Cheers,
Lance