Greetings All, I apologize for my apparent lack of progress as I have been dealing with a few physical ailments as of late. I am pretty much through the worst of it now and am at a point where I am finally able to press on with the project. So without further ado, here are a couple of updates;
First, I re-did the mini-Killstripes after that masking tape disaster!
Next after masking up the bucket and spraying on a few layers of diamond dust, I let it sit for a few days while I was spending a very, unpleasant amount of time in my bathroom (when I was dealing with the stomach bug) ((not fun!!)). Then, a week later, after I starting to feel better, I began tracing out the silver and gray damage areas on the front mandible areas.
I wish it was as easy as just cut and paste, but....
after the gray and silver were traced and hand painted on, I started putting on the custom purple color of humbrols 73 and 104. Everything I read about this color said to mix it 1:1, but when I first did that, it looked WAY too purple, almost Barney the Dinosaur purple (YUK!). After some trial and error and a few days to rest my back I came up with what I believe is a pretty good match. The true test will be when I am able to see it up against the red once it goes on, but we will cross that bridge when we get there.
I then turned my attention to the left ear decal. I hand traced the design with a chalk pencil (easy to erase and start again!)
then just painted it in with some humbrol 34. While I had the white color mixed and ready I went ahead and did the "thumbprint" and damage area on The Killstripes.
Well, that about covers it for now. I pray that the next time I update that the red color (73) will be painted on and the light at the end of the tunnel (for the bucket anyway) will be well within sight!
Thank you all very much for your patience, thanks as always for checking in and Be Well!