Painting has started in earnest and as I predicted it’s not going swimmingly, partly because I have lost a lot of my skills, but also I am pretty certain the paint formulas have changed, back in the day I could paint straight from the tin (Enamel or the new-fangled acrylics) without the streaky problems I am getting now. (bad workman always ……?).
Despite three coats the blue on Jings! The finish is still bit patchy and the masking of the stripes had a bit of blue bleeding through (my fault that one!).
Getting rid of the bleeding is proving troublesome, light over dark aside, the blue is behaving like it hasn’t quite dried and is mixing with the white despite giving it over 48 hours to dry, I will persevere and give it a coat of rattle can racing gloss when I am finished, hopefully it will even out some of the shading.
Here is Jings! at the moment, still needing a bit of tidying up, some transfers found and the canopy fitted, given my newly acquired shaky hand I will probably use painted Sellotape for the frame.
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The Land Rover is all but complete just trying to find some sort of number plate in the decal stash and maybe some other decals for decoration then I will gloss up the body work.
The beaching gear suffered another tow bar linkage breakage (damn you superglue!) so I cobbled another tow bar link using plastic rod and card, it’s not what I intended but will do, so the beaching gear is complete.
Please don’t look too closely at the wheels, another skill lost but I am working on it. My attempt at dry brushing the wire grille was also a bit patchy
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