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Scratchbuilding A New Deck for IJN Kaga

Step 4…

After all the major cutting and scoring of the new Kaga deck I was ready to paint it. My first step was to recreate the metal frame that surrounds the elevators. The wood planking would just need filled in, in these areas. I masked the area around the holes with painters tape. I also made the rectangular metal area on the second wood section that would be over the funnel area. For the rounded corners, I used the hole punch on a piece of tape and cut the hole into fourths for the corner masking. I then sprayed a light coat of a generic department store primer on the area. I used this because it was coarser than model primer. After it had thoroughly dried I lightly sanded it with fine model sand paper and then sprayed on another light coat and repeated sanding until I was satisfied with the result.