Work continued yesterday on detail painting for the parts completed so far. I have to make some adjustments to my colors after re-checking my references. I was going on false memories of what is brass and what is paint. Today, I’m busy drawing the last gun house and UHR details: the communications and controls that are hanging on various places, including four columns that surround the gun captain’s position at the rear GH wall. Once I finish and print those I technically can assemble the gun house and upper handling room.
First, after correcting the UHR Dredge Hoist with the closed lid, I solved the leaking resin problem.
There are no details to paint on this part. It’s just all gray. I brush, rather than air brush painted this. It was still wet when I shot the pic.
I painted the brass on the gun slides, open dredge hoist, projectile and powder hoists that go betweem GH and UHR, and the brass on the lower dredge hoists. I didn’t paint enough brass on the guns and too much on the lower hoists. The lids are not brass.
I then spent a lot of time masking the interior of GH and UHR. And, of course, I broke not only another foot rung, but beat the heck out of the two open gun house doors. I’m going to print new ones since the hinges are getting pretty munged up and re-gluing over and over is not working. The exterior gets painted WW2 Haze Gray. Current US Navy color is a lighter, more blue shade of gray. I’m doing WW2 configuration.
The problem is each time I turn the gun house to apply tape and apply some pressure I break something. I kind of knew this would happen.