Hi everyone,
Thanks for bearing with me this summer. It has been a very low-build set of months. My wife remains on disability due to her concussion, but is gradually being able to do more. I haven't had much energy for building, but I have attended the local club launches and even got out on my own a couple times to the park. Starship Excalibur has been my only build this whole summer, and even that has been just a few minutes at a time.
But, I'm happy to report that as I type this, a coat of Future (or whatever it's called these days) is drying on it. Let me catch up with a few pictures.
After the first coat of sandable primer several posts up (the most recent picture above), I did the usual first round of sanding. Here she is, and you can see lots of imperfections remain:
I hit it with Tamiya white putty (white just for visual contrast), let dry, and sanded down. This actually took me 3 weeks in real time due to busy life. But here is the sanded down putty:
I went back in with a second round of putty (gray this time as I recall) and filled in a few remaining spots. Sanded down, and shot with sandable primer once more.
This got a super light buffing type sanding with a 320 grit sponge (and old one, not very toothy) and some 320 grit paper.
That done, I shot it with Auto Air white. Didn't bother with a coat of "sealer white" due to the many pre-primings and such. Two coats of opaque white and she's ready for decals:
I put the decals on last weekend; this morning I got around to brushing on the future. Next pic will be the glory shot.