Thanks guys, glossed yesterday and started the decals today...careful scrutiny of the photo's indicates the Green 9 is not where EE's instructions show, the numbers are slightly further forward across a vertical panel line,rather than to the rear of the line, above the rear portion of the trailing edge of the fuselage to wing panel.
Also my reckoning of the defence bands size and location means the supplied gruppe bars are too short so a bit of surgery fixes that on the starboard side, will finish the port side tomorrow. Pain in the butt is that the 3 sets of supplied green bars are all different widths, so careful trimming to match up is in order....
Note how the bars look crooked in the shots taken at an angle due to the fuselage plug being a flat parallel section, while the forward fuselage flares out slightly, then the shot taken from the side shows the starboard bar as straight.