Well I had to take a few days away from the bench. Got really frustrated as I made a few more stupid mistakes. I did an oil wash on the main fuselage that came out pretty nice. the details came out pretty good and it did not look super weathered. Exactly the look I wanted, used but in good clean condition. In doing my wash cleanup I pulled all the wash out of some panel lines. Instead of making some more wash I decided to try out these gundam panel line markers I have had kicking around. I read that lots of people love them for panel lining. I ran it down a few lines and was amazed at how easy it was to get a nice dark panel line. In my over exuberance I lined the whole top of the fighter. That’s when it all came together. The lines were WAY to dark. It made it look very cartoonish. Probably fine on gundams but not here. So no problem right? A little thinner on a q-tip and I’ll lighten those lines up in no time. Enamel thinner, o.m.s, even lighter fluid would not take the marker off. Looked up on the old interweb how to remove gundam marker and of course isopropyl alcohol is what I find. Great, my clear coat is future. I.A. Cuts future and pretty much all acrylics. dont know what I was thinking but I decided that the future was fully cured it should withstand a slightly damp q-tip of I.A. Nope! The first lightest touch went right through and even started to break down the color coat. Live and learn I guess.
After a break I ran my scribe along all the panel lines to make sure the extra paint wouldn’t erase them. Then I started all over. Re primed, color coat, future and finally the wash. So after that I was able to finally get the major parts together in preparation for its final top coat. 
So after some frustrations I am pretty happy with the way it looks. sure it’s not my best work but I feel it’s not to bad for my first attempt back in the hobby. im going to hit it with some Tamiya semi clear today and that should finish this one off