September 27 2009 | Gold paint

Then some clearer tint as some undercoat ion the front left of the turret. Notice I also sprayed a ray of gold as some transition, that's the sun you see

September 27 2009 | Gold paint on the hull too

Same thing on the hull...

September 27 2009 | Silver Hobb Color paint

Applying the silver paint on the high highlights

September 27 2009 | Leave the rear right in the darkness

leave the rear right in the darkness

September 27 2009 | Rubbing with a brush

Whats' the word already "rub and buff"? anyway, stroking the metal with a brush makes the bump popping out 

October 04 2009 | Microclear for canopies

Microscale Microclear. It's a sort of extremely thick varnish. The trick is to cover your brush with it -and the brush must have roughly the same size as the opening. Then in one single stroke you manage to cover every outer part of the window with the brush, and take back the brush, and the varnish covers the openings!

October 04 2009 | Canopies dried

Now I was sort of stupid as I should have manage the surface to be even on the big round bit, because when it dried, it sort of kept the "volume" the stroke left.

October 04 2009 | Test fitting

bah, no problem, this particular bit of glass will be shattered anyway

test fitting...
You know in Lovecraft books, *angles* are supposed to drive guys crazy when they are particularly malevolent. let's try to be a bit malevolent with those angles. Now finding the *exact place* for all the elements was a real time consuming job. Now this is still not the exact final place.