Well its been a while since my last update and I am sadden to say I took one step forward and two steps back in terms of progress. After I had stripped the hull of paint I decided to implement
Paul Budzik's fix for the hull, which resulted in major surgery since I had already glued the hull together with the internal bulkheads
The overly large ¿hull blister? was reduced in size where necessary. Managed to glue the hull piece I had removed but there was a lot of putty and sanding work to be done.
Afterwards I used black paint painted in lines to suggest hull plates while also using plastic strips to add details removed during my overzealous sanding of the hull.
Finally I managed to get around to painting the hull. First a shot of black primer.
then I painted the underwater hull with model master insignia red with an air brush.
Lets just say that this airbrush work was a bit of a fiasco in progress
First I think the paint was to thick so it came out in small globs. Then I thinned it too much
Finally managed to get it too come out okay but I need a second coat of paint and I ended up using the entire bottle in the first coat.
So any advice on the thinner to paint ratio?
Till next time
