No, Dan, no gloss coat. I wanted to keep layers down and since this looked like a few coats of paint and weathering, I tried to minimize that. Plus I don't have an airbrush to thin paints so thick is thick! Wanted to get a base coat of the blue with major weathering and decals then a gloss coat for fidgy pastel weathering, panels lines and any touch up.
I started with the decals on one side. The two white dashes on the rudder disintegrated when out of the water (I thought a decal from 1967 would be ok?) so I hand painted the lines although I don't think I made the angle of slash as deep as they should be. Hard to tell without the gear showing the proper angle but its ok. Once I get the other decals on, I will put the gloss coat and then the finese painting.