I can't over emphasise how important it is to have every detail crisp and precise in grey before adding gloss colour
A lashing of colour will soon highlight horrible bits and a thicker coat won't help
All that is shiny is not gold
Also painting when there is still a lot of work to do increases the chances of scratches and other nasty damage.
I cannot paint the deck until I've soldered all the stanchion bases to the correct angles.
The hull is ready for paint now but its too cold and I need to sail her again before fixing the deck.
The cabin is nearly there once I've drilled the rest of the holes. The upper helm controls can be added after the orange.
There is still a lot of work to do to the upper helm but this can still be removed from the cabin to work on yet. This will be painted separately to the cabin as I designed it deliberately this way to make painting relatively easy.
You would have to go way back in the blog to see how this is fixed in place with screws.
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,61758.msg672609.html#msg672609The corridor side wall will eventually be glued to the back wall and made to look like one part where the corner grab rail is.
Even with everything removed there is plenty of masking to do.
My other build ready for texture coating last year