Thanks Father Ennis!
The fuselage for the Bomber. It may not look like much, but that is hours of lego engineering
I tinkered with again and again to refine it. You can see I cut off the lego bumps on top, and the holes and other areas will be covered in spare styrene to hide the lego under structure. The engine is separated so it can be more easily painted. (Less masking!)
In a last ditch effort to make due on my model per month goal I broke out this 1/100 Tomcat and got to work:
I hate Canopy masking, but I have been out of modeling for so much of this year it was surprisingly therapeutic!
This was where things got odd. I painted the Underside first along with the Pod/Spine things there underneath the Tomcat and its not a camera trick, the paint was darker!! From the same can --different shades on different days!
Not a problem though as the darker side is the underside (realistic shadows!) and it will break up the monotony of a single tone with the pods/spines on top. The paint might just be old as it was tacky for days...