Wheelhouse painting.

At last the wheelhouse is now painted!!!
This has taken me a lot longer then I had hoped,?why? well the first thing I did was to drop the wheelhouse on the floor!!!!!!!!! ******** And smashed off one of the side handrails, which ripped out a nice piece out of the starboard side boxes, plus I also cracked one of the rear stern boxes, that the steps go on.
To say that I could have cried my heart out is a under statement, so after this happening I left the lifeboat alone for a week.

I then made some quick repairs to the wheelhouse, as time was getting close for the Beale show. After the show I then completed the repairs and started the last of the filling and rubbing down ready for the final undercoat.
With the wheelhouse all rubbed down and washed off and then left to dry, it was time to batch up the undercoat paint, now when I mix any paint for air brushing, I always mix up a good sized jam jar full in one go.
I have used Humbrol paint all the way through this build, as I think it is the best Modeling paint on the market, I do use halfords plastic primer paint, but you need to take care in the way you use it, ?Why? well its like this. Halfords plastic primer is acrylic based paint, and Humbrol is an enamel based paint, to which you can over spray the acrylic with enamel, but not the other way round, if you do it will crack, and go orange peel big time.

The wheelhouse has had from start to finish the following.
 Two coats of plastic filler primer.
 Four coats of Grey plastic primer
 Two coats of white plastic primer
 Eight coats of Humbrol Matt white, mixed with a small amount of Humbrol orange gloss.
 Eight coats of Humbrol Orange gloss
Each time I had sprayed the paint it was left to dry for a min of 24hrs, and then each covering was rubbed down with 1200 wet and dry.
If you take you time you will end up with a first class job.

Well I have now had the decals from model flags for to long so its time to get them fitted. As I now know they are scale size I fitted the blue lifeboats decal first, taking the measurements from the R.N.L.I. drawing.

The decals are cut out on a sheet with a wax backing on it, and on the top of that is a semi clear front, you have to rub the back of the wax paper not too hard to make the decal stick to the clear front, then you can very slowly removed the wax backing leaving the decal ready to apply to the model. With the decal all lined up to where you want it, all you then do is rub gently the decal through the clear front and it sticks to your model, then very gently remove the clear front and you have a very perfect decal fitted.