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This is where I masked the leg to paint the underwear. I have found that
plastic wrap does an excellent job to form precise masking
lines. The wrap is slightly stretchy, sticks to itself, and
can be pulled taut where necessary. I cut the wrap into half
inch strips to apply. However, you have to be careful.
The wrap almost seems to sweat and can leave slight marks in
uncured glossy finishes. Paint can
take up to a week to cure, so when I use this technique I make
sure that I mask, paint, and remove the masking within one half
hour of application. |
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After masking the arm with plastic wrap I used the airbrush to
spray the gloss black bands. Note the imprecise line where
the black meets the white. I could fix this by
re-masking and spraying again, or by hand with a brush. |
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This is the touched-up arm. I used a brush to
correct the masking flaw. |
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This is the outer and inner skirt after painting the
gold trim and assembling the parts. Note that a minor touch-up to the gold trim is
required as only one coat of gold is applied and there are thin
spots that need repair. |
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This is the sailor top after the gold trim is
painted. Quite frankly, painting the trim was tedious.
It was important to ensure that the paint did not go outside the
textured area. |
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Here is the body after it has been partly
assembled. All the pieces fit together quite well. |
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This is the head after assembly. The seams in
the hair will have to be filled and repainted. The face has
been covered with plastic wrap to protect it. I actually laid
the plastic wrap over the face before gluing on the hair
pieces, so it was partly glued underneath. I planned to pull the
plastic off after the head was repaired. |
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You can see the problem that needs repair. The
large opening on the top looks like a chisel was hammered
into the head. This is because a chisel was hammered into the
head. I had originally glued the two back pieces together
when dry fitting the model as I had thought to
fill the seam prior to priming, but then discovered that
it was impossible to fit the face into the assembled unit.
The super glue bond was difficult to break so I had to use a
chisel. |
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This is the head after the seams were filled and the masking removed. I
used super glue to fill the seams then sanded and repainted over the original
base coat color to change from a dark sea green to a dark purple tint
with more gloss reflectivity. I also fixed some of the detail on the black lines around the eyes. |
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