The Little World

Under where did you want me to spray?

I am getting good value out of my Mr. Hobby Procom single-action spray gun – the one I bought with funds raised by selling off unwanted photo gear. The gun is a big chunky thing with just one giant adjusting knob and an equally large finger button.

I confess that when I am setting on a thinned undercoat mixture I just aim off a bit, press that button until there is no spitting, and then wave it over the model with a continuous motion. The revolving stand allows me to turn the thing from top to bottom and it is a very efficient process.

I’ve not yet decided which of the Mr Hobby undercoats works best, but I choose something around the 1000 mark. I suspect the grey primer, surfacer, and base white are just variants of the same formula. As the Mr Color metallic silver covers so well I dont really think it makes much of a difference which shade you use. It does, however, make a difference if you are going to paint white or yellow later – then you choose white.

The paint-on mask trick for the cockpit hasn’t failed yet. I just have to make sure that there are no dry spots that have failed to mask.

And here’s the later mask when I needed to differentiate the top from the bottom. The grey top was the smallest portion of the scheme so, uncharacteristically, it was done first and masked away. You get surprisingly good at this sort of thing – 45 minutes was all I needed to seal it all off.