Cleaned up some white metal parts and attached a few:
Naturally, some putty was used before priming.
The brass rods came in the kit, but I mounted endplates on them for easier handling. These parts will be painted before assembling them.
I have started painting the parts. I will put a black basecoat on before decaling with CF. The white top must be painted and I decided to paint the narrow red stripe on the body, and use the decals for the other graphics. I will use Tamiya paints, with TS49, bright red, being a close, but not perfect match to the red on the decals. I think it will work, as the red stripe on the body will not be too close to any red decals. My reference pics shows the carbon weave pattern to be a simple weave on the body and twill weave everywhere else. I'll tone down the twill weave decals with Alclad smoke. I'll use ST27 carbon kevlar decals inside the fenders.