And it turns out it’s an ink, not a paint. That explains why no amount of adding white paint, and the lightest flesh tone paint you have to it, seems to make no difference at all. Of course it’s runny, if you’re starting from essentially what is coloured water. So, in essence, I might have just buggered the lot of my model kit build by layering on uber wet ink. Damnit. Double damn it. We will know more once it dries and I can remove all of my masking. Goes on lovely, but pools and drips like a MF’r. Oops. Hopefully I haven’t ruined several hours of painstaking painting from the last week. Fingers crossed I did a better job of masking, so the runs won’t kill my paint job!
If it all looks ok, the next step is several coats of gloss varnish to seal in and protect my paint. Or, if I feel like it, a few more panels can get picked out and high lighted with additional colours. Plus the hand canon needs to be painted black in the few spots it has rubbed off. Also, the inside bells of all the thrusters need to be painted yellow too. I thought that would tie them all together nicely. Chrome/gun metal outside, and yellow on the interiors. Really putting some effort into this build. Oh, and I’ve almost forgotten, the canopy needs to be painted aswell. And the cockpit details painted in too. That could be another hour or two alone. Hopefully it will all come together as something I can be proud of, rather than buried at the back of a shelf in shame.
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