Evening Prisoners Around the World,
It's been a while since my last update as work has been a total bear. I come home and it's lights out and then the lust is gone. Mojo like a roller coaster too. Anyway, I have a week off, so once again, I have forced myself to drive on and it worked!!!
Greg - Thanks my man and your wish is my command!!!....
Paul - You did earlier my friend and thank you for the support....
Graeme - Thank you Sir! The biggest prob is trying to paint it all. I can't find my blu tack to put it on cocktails sticks to make it easier…..
Bob - Thanks too Bob. I'm giving it my best shot and I'm so glad to hear you are feeling better...
I finally decided that I need to get some color on this thang. I double checked the StuG to see if I had forgotten any tidbits and figured if I did, then I could add them later. I have attempted to paint this puppy a few times, but every time I wanted to, the weather went south and the sun too. On Sunday, I painted one side of the side skirts with the hairy stick using Ron's tips from his great Lancaster SBS....
Yesterday, was hissy stick time as we have had sunshine the past couple of days. I use
Mission Models paints for spraying. I saw that my late war dunkelgelb looked a little thick, so I added some thinner for a 3 to 1 ratio. Handling the StuG was a prob so I grabbed it by the gun in the open top and started shooting...…….Paint too thin!!! So glad that I was shooting the bottom. After that cup full, I went with paint straight out of the bottle. Enough BS………….
Yea, some areas a bit thin and a little overspray even though I had made a cover for the mantlet….Some more,
When I started to spray the upper part of it, of course, the sun went behind the clouds and it was very hard to see where I was spraying and how good the coverage was. I think the Hissy Stick Gods are against me all the way!!!!! Ok, I did miss a total coverage in a few places, but it's not a big deal. I also sprayed the other side of the skirts and the fighting compartment lid,
The bottom 2 skirts on the left were hairy stick painted and the rest were sprayed. The brushed skirts look better compared to the sprayed ones. Ron was right when he said 2 coats should do the trick…….And it did! I broke out the hairy stick and went about fixing stuff,
I also touched up the thin sprayed areas and the gun mantlet,
Going to let it all dry till tomorrow and then plan my camo scheme. I also have to think about who is going to be in the cupola. I have 2 resin figgies that would fit the bill,
Hans, or maybe,
Fritz...…….Yes, that means I do have to paint a figure. The horror, the horror.........…........
That's all for now good people! Please stay safe and hopefully parole will come soon for us all. Such nice weather and you can't even go out and sit in a beer garden for a Brotzeit and a cold one!!!
Bleib Gesund
Allen