Add your primer
After minimal cleaning up of the wing joins the Tamiya Medium Grey is sprayed on and when dry buffed gently with a sanding sponge to smooth the surface ready for the next stage of assembly – the rigging locations, turnbuckles, struts and all that. I want all that stuff to be ready to go before I attach the main wing and cabane struts and of course the upper wing itself.
Buffing is also good because it creates slight lowlights and highlights to the surface, a texture although subtle that will affect the final reflective qualities of the finished ‘silver’ finish – we’ll come back to this later.
