Thank you. But in all fairness, you did beat me on this.
For the reflections, the repaint kit comes with the needed alpha channels. When you load the texture into DXTBMP, go to import alpha and select the proper one for each texture file:fuselage,wings, & elevators.

Yep, it should be up on the V's board soon. I'm gonna give another plane a try for the next one. Don't want to flood the market with Challenger repaints.