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I have a pro question, particularly in regards to the Privateer Press studio models.

I was looking at the studio procedure for painting Khador Red armor plating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9Tia5hKlg
It involves a careful build up of blended shades and highlights over a base layer and then ten thin washes of ink to tint the whole affair afterward. I was just thinking to myself that any error or splodge onto that red afterward would be a giant pain to correct, like any super-blended section of a model.

At the same time I notice that in a lot of the PP painting demos, they reapply black to neaten things up on surrounding areas after they are done.
Is it really typical, for studio-type models, to work beginning to end on each section, and then use black along the way to line things after each section? It seems that PP artists using a well palette kind of reflects that with taking base colors and altering them down each well in the process. This is opposed to the Citadel "base-everything, shade-everything, highlight-everything" that I grew up on.
How do you pick what sections to paint up first? Ease of access? Surface area? Persnickity technique?
Particularly on the Khador warjack, would you do metal and black inner bits first or the red first?
(And I know techniques differ, I would just like to know if the PP pros just go ahead and be perfect on each section in turn to completion. When they do the video paint-chats, they do admit that they paint more for their own playing and fun and are looser and faster with a lot of glazing on camera.)