As you say, they do needs lots of work and the quality of your build shows your obvious modeling skills !Ed
To Mr. Hegedus:The foil was painted after being applied to the canopy. I had some trouble 'blending' the canopy piece, and had obliterated some framing, so I wanted to restore with something that would stand proud on its own. I had some prepared foil to hand from a previous build, so I used that, as its 'silver' interior would match the aluminum lacquer finish of the cockpits. I always do frames free-hand. It would probably have been easier to do decal film strips, painted twice (once for interior color, once for exterior color), but I did not at the time have any decent silver paint.