Since I was a teenager I have been the main painter and decorator in our house. I've painted ceilings, walls, white woodwork, door steps, front doors, doors, doors with glass in them, garages, fence panels....
I've not always used the correct paint, especially for outdoor work and mostly everything has lasted well enough. Sometimes even using the correct paint (yes, I am looking at you fence panels painted with a well known brand of wood paint) it doesn't always last as well as it should. I've used special paints for inside work, and they scrape as soon as you look at them.
One of the worst things I have ever had to paint is a door with 15 glass panels, and every pane of glass had to be surrounded in masking tape to stop the paint, and even then you always got some paint onto the glass when it leeched under the tape, which I then have to scrape off with a knife. (Frog tape is best, but it is more expensive and also tougher to remove, I think it could easily have pulled some of the bookworm away with it if they had used that).
Watching him remove that masking tape to reveal such crisp lines, I swear I could hear the hallelujah chorus. Masking tape is a bugger to work with, it either doesn't stick, doesn't keep the pain out or stays stuck. I noticed the paint did seep under very slightly in a few areas but heyho.
Personally, from the photo he has taken the colour scheme from.... he has done a better job. The colour red used by AT is garish and too blood like for my liking and doesn't sit well the colour of the coat. The deeper red he has used works far better as does the colour of the coat. From the picture and his own work, I would also have to say the paintwork of the chest area does look neater.
I'm not going to delve to deep into the reasons why I think he should be applauded for this work (and his dad of course!) because it's already been mentioned several times by others, and I think to be honest he could be repairing it using the original colours, materials, workings etc and it still wouldn't be to everyone's liking.
I'm just still marvelling at watching two men capable of doing some serious and weird DIY. (Not saying men are not capable obviously, I'm merely referring to the incapable men in my immediate family
) (Of which I have a lot)