Great job on the '47 skins, Nopoop and Nomde!! Glad to see you are working on Eagleston's 354th FG Jug - really a noteworthy skin!
I had started this one too as a first skinning project and never got back to it. Looks like it's in good hands. Please hurry

Here's a bit of help on natural metal treatment - I think I got this from Waffle, who posted it a while ago, either here or at AHSkins, I forget.
This is the fuselage detail:
And here's what it looks like in game (max texture size 512Mb):
I think it looks amazing. Compare the difference to the wings. Sorry, I don't have wing skins!