A bit more progress made. The first pic is of the Spit masked up and ready for a primer coat.
I then fixed a piece of plastic sprue into the spinner with superglue, it will break off cleanly when needed but it does provide something to hold and hang the model by while it dries. I then primed it and when it dried checked for flaws in the model, there were very few and it did not take long the clean them up. I then re-sprayed with primer where I had sanded it off.
Here it is hanging up drying. It needs to cure properly before the next stage.
The next stage is a tricky one for me. Something I have not tried before but I need to do so because it will be more important for the larger scale kits I plan to start soon and these smaller ones are just 'work-ups' to that.
This is called pre-shading in which I blow black paint from the airbrush along and around all panel lines. This is meant to show through the top camo coat and replicate the accumulated dirt and grime. When I have bleached the middle of the panels and done a dirt wash it can look very effective. I am a novice with an airbrush and am not sure how it will work out, we shall see, the good thing is that it is not meant to look like neat and tidy grid lines but is meant to be a bit rough and haphazard. The model will look a mess when its done....
I will post the results when done, it may take a couple of sessions. Fingers crossed.