I am
currently in the process of drying myself off after completing a short paint
session. The last couple of days have crept back into the mid-80s, and (as you
know) the garage has no air conditioning. So it is a hot and sweaty process.
Nonetheless, progress was made. The forecast isn’t giving us any relief
whatsoever, since we have a 6-day streak of over 90s, and one upper 90 in the
bargain. There are no days under 70 (except for tomorrow) that are under 80.
Our purchase of a room A/C unit for the master bedroom is starting to look like
the smartest capital outlay we’ve made in a while.
Nothing
too exciting in this batch. I got a matte coat on the Stryker, so it will soon
be appearing in the completed column. I also got a semi-matte coat on the
Yak-130 trainer. Once I strip the canopy masking it will be ready to go as
well. It looks like the topcoat covered up some of the silvering of the AModel
decals.
Next
came a surface Barley Grey for the anniversary Eurofighter. It looked fine
afterwards, so it looks like I’ll be able to strip everything but the canopy
masking and proceed with adding landing gear and doors.
Finally
came two Alclad colours. First a White Aluminum for landing gear and exhausts
for various projects (Hurricane, F-101, XP-79) and then an Exhaust Manifold
shot for some detailing on the F-101 and Eurofighter exhausts. This is a
bit of an experiment, and I’m interested to see how it turns out.
I know
the photo of the post-painting below looks very similar to the last couple of
entries, but as it turns out the same models have been getting most of the
focus lately. Now that I can clear out the Stryker and the Yak-130 (followed, I
hope quickly, by a fully decalled Starship), I should have some additional
space on the workbench to allow me to concentrate on other projects.
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