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Got the back all steel wooled, re-coated, and finally peeled.
It looks pretty cartoony with the colors so flat like that, but that seems to be pretty normal from the paintups I've seen, I expect it'll come into it's own after the weathering.
With the back mostly done for now, I began on the face.
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The initial grey layer came out a little rough due to Florida's humidity, so it got a steel wool pass too. After that on went the red, then the lower cheek's green. I figured it'll be best to do the upper cheek's black last as it'll cover the red and green much better than the other way around.
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While starting to remove the masking to prepare for the black layer though I ran into a bit of a problem.. some paint chipping. It goes all the way down to the resin, so it seems the primer had a weak bond in this area. It's a bit of a crevice, so I guess I missed doing any prep here and it still had the release agent oils on it from the casting process. whoops.
For now I re-taped it and peeled it a few times to get it to fully-chip. I didn't wanna repaint it just for it to chip again. Tommorow I'm gonna try to sand down the surrounding red a little to flatten the layer ridge, then carefully repaint the area. Luckily it's only chipped in the red, and not the actual layered damage much, so it'll hopefully be an easy touchup.
