Another
marathon paint session last night which allowed me to catch up with most of the
paint queue. Next comes some masking on the Eurofighter nose radomes and the
two Spit 1s so that they can take their place in the line.
Though
the airbrush does continue to be a bit cranky at times, it is mostly behaving
itself. There was one incident of operator error that I found to be very
frustrating. It was on the Hurricane that will be done up in Operation Torch
markings, so I was shooting a color coat of EDS Grey onto the upper surfaces.
Any intelligent human would have had a dowel stuck into the propeller hole in
the front of the aircraft in order to hold it while spraying. Alas, I
apparently do not qualify, so I was trying to hold it by tail surfaces until
the time came to put the model onto a piece of cardboard and shoot the tail.
Needless to say, the thing slipped out of my hands, got EDS grey onto the lower
surfaces as well as causing some damage to the still wet paint. In trying to quickly
get the grey off of the ventral surface, the Sky paint came up. So it will need
a Sky respray as well as an EDS respray. Hopefully a lesson learned for the
future: I am a spaz and should not be trusted with holding on to a model in the
process of being airbrushed.
Beyond
the painting session, some construction was also completed. I've now got
landing gear and wheels on both the X-47 and the B-26. Decals will be next,
then a final bit of attaching fiddly bits like antennae and landing gear doors.
I do
have the first couple of completions for 2016 in hand, and as soon as I try to
rebuild my photo setup (which was disbursed and probably misplaced during the
Great House Refresh of early 2015) I will get them photographed and posted. My
goal is to get this done before 1-27, which is when I go back in for the
follow-up surgery to repair the pacemaker/defibrillator leads.
Seeing your pictures, it all looks calm and serene. I can't believe someone else, like me, held the model by the tail and....
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Well, I regularly violate most established modelling rules at least once in a while. If you had been standing outside my garage on the night in session, you might not have heard anything that was calm and serene...
ReplyDeleteWell, I regularly violate most established modelling rules at least once in a while. If you had been standing outside my garage on the night in session, you might not have heard anything that was calm and serene...
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