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Today is a painting day. Set the gear legs in place and attached the actuator to the leg, rather than wait till it's painted. Thinned the little thingies on the gear legs. Thinned the cowl at the exhausts, just to make it look a little more to scale.painted the inside of the cowling. Painted the legs and parts as well as the tail wheel. Masked off the bottom of the wing to do the wells.
I used some mask from the sign shop. It comes in a meter wide roll, self adhesive and very easy to cut. Risky to use as a mask for acrylics tho, it's meant to be used with lacquers, but go easy on it and it's okay. Go see someone in your local sign shop for some scraps.
The reason I used the mask on the wing? Gonna use gloss for the color coats, didn't want the flat underneath.