I did the rest of teh painting last night, and am quite happy with the result.
Drying: the paint I used (Humbrol Enamel) on a regular LightWedge dried just fine. The paint is slow drying, but the first paint had dired just fine after 24 hours, and took a second coat nicely enough. Naturally I had to use masking tape to paint the edges, but with masking tape and peeling the tape off after a while, the painting is easy and doesn't really matter if one makes a mess
I'll post pictures in a while - my modemrouter was broken last night in a thunderstorm, so I'm on a sloooowww dialup connection getting my daily internet fix...