Here's the parts to be painted blue, all masked up and ready to go. I've used Frog Tape, mainly because I bought it in UK last March and haven't found a use for it yet. The makers claim it gives a good clean edge to the paint without any seepage. We'll see!
Above is me applying the dust-coat to which hopefully the other coats will stick. The colour is a Mitsubishi shade which I picked from the colour charts at the Orinos shop.
Not surprisingly, it gets darker with each coat.
OK, I'm fairly happy with this finish although some suicidal little bugs seem to want to land in it. I tried picking them off with tweezers but it makes more mess than leaving them. Maybe they will polish out later?
Here's t'other side with a few of coats of lacquer applied. It looks OK now but two coats ago, it went very dull. This was not good as lacquer is supposed to make it very shiny of course. Once mixed with it's hardener, there is a time limit before it starts to set. Although it was still spraying, it was actually going off in the spray gun. I quickly mixed up some new lacquer and problem solved, the shine came back, much to my relief.
Horn casting masked up.
Horn casting unmasked.
Side panel unmasked. Looks OK up to here, but bad news to follow.
I had masked the panel following the fold in the pressing but when I offered up the sidepanel flashes, as you can see there is a white stripe between the flash and the blue. Personally, I think this looks awful, the edge of the blue should be lost under the metal badge.
This means masking off in the right place then rubbing down the blue/white joint and all the rest of the blue and re-spraying. BoXX!ks. Back to the drawing board.
Love the colour....Sheena
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