And it was hot. Hot enough to dry solvent paint on the way from the nozzle of the airbrush to the surface of the model. Time for a thinner paint mix with more retarder and a lower air pressure. All you need to do is be prepared for what the weather throws at you. Fortunately a very dry day.
Here we are at Friday lunchtime after a hard week of masking and spraying. It’s an easy as well as a complex masking task – you need to re-mask after a layer dries…and if you are obsessed with avoiding overspray, that means full masks. The rubbish bin is a sticky mess today
The coating of the canopy worked perfectly – the mask peeled off with the tape layers. Now I’ll prise it off and paint it with the bow pen and then put it back on. There’s still a little interior paint needed.
The next agony will not be the decals – they’ll drop easily onto those gloss surfaces. It will be whether to weather the wheel wells and exhaust area and put in paint dings. I realise that at present it looks like a Hubley die-cast toy, but those colours are just so gorgeous…!
The Little World 
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