To escape the haunting bulwark - I am also looking into the wheelhouse.
The bridge furniture was fun to work on, and primer and base painting went ok.
BUT oh dear, how difficult it was with the varnishing.
In a picture taken from afar, and in future inside the wheel house, where it's hard to see them anyways, I guess the end result is acceptable.
The setbacks that I couldn't correct after removing and repainting and revarnishing and resanding several times are:
- Not smooth surface (as I would like anyway)
- dust particles all over
- most of all stickiness of the surface. If I touch the pieces, there'll be fingerprints and other marks...
All through my build, I don't seem to get to grips with varnishing...
The "heater" (separate block behind the map table) came out fine, if it weren't for the stickiness.
I tried brushing the varnish, but I'm lousy with brush. So I used airbrush. At least I've had practise now for the future varnishing phases.
Btw - the rattle can is really, really, good for painting and varnishing. It's just that especially with small fittings, it's far too expensive, and waste and vapours inside the house in the winter time is tremendous!