) and this weekend was one of those... :-) I had a great day of modeling yesterday, much was accomplished on both of the projects that are on my bench as of now...so I get up this morning (at 4:30 A.M.) to get a head start on my Dreadnoughts! Entry, and I didn't notice that a gremlin had snuck in the back door after I let the dog out...
As I sat and admired the progress of yesterday, in which I had spent most of the last two hours of the day finishing up the last of the deck painting of my New Jersey, a sinking feeling had set upon me...I had failed to first paint the base coat of the upper hull, and being that my subject is 1/700 scale, there are many places that I absolutely could not even think of reaching with a brush to paint (add to that failing eyes and a little less steady of a hand!). The gremlin was beginning to smile now...
So, I decided to basically scrap the progress that I hade made on the decks yesterday, and set about to getting ready to spray the base coats upon the upper hull, and will no doubt overspray each and every deck that I had so lovingly painted ...I had carefully done a great bit of research about the paint scheme of my ship, as it is a Trumpeter, and as we all know they use Gunze paint colors in their schemes...So I cross referenced again and again, compared color chips and came up with the exact (the gremlin is beginning to giggle, now) matches for the paint scheme.
So after I get finished spraying the last of two coats of "Dark Gray" # 32 onto Miss New Jersey, I set about to jump ahead to the next steps in my build and start to paint the main guns, and a quite a few other parts this same "Dark Gray" as per the instructions color scheme...as I'm finishing up the last coat on these little jewels (the gremlin is laughing out loud by now!) I quickly realize that something just doesn't look right with this "Dark Gray" that is reccomended...well, I soon figured out what I had done...you see, my friends, Gunze-Sangyo colors and Gunze-Sangyo Mr. Color colors are two very different monsters, and this morning I really didn't know that, but I sure do now...(the gremlin is in complete hysteria about now)..The "Dark Gray" #32 that I so carefully crossed over to what I thought was correct was no-where near what it should have been...The "Dark Gray" that I sprayed was a little lighter than a Panzergrau to my eyes...what I should've sprayed was a shade closer to Dark Ghost Gray!!!
So please, my friends, do not make the same mistake as I, pay a little closer attention to the fine print at the bottom of the web pages that you download your color conversion charts from, and you won't be paid visit by the same gremlin that got me this morning!
Gunny
#:-) Don't worry...be happy!
