What a week it has been! hope you are all well and taking care of your health and your loved ones.
Well I got my workspace back after Mrs W and I rearranged our tiny home so she could work at home and I could pursue my hobby. In my last update I had a beautiful thumb print to remove so my first job was to deal with that. I had sprayed Vallejo satin varnish to protect the decals from masking before the upheaval.
20200321_164834 by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
Next job was break a couple of cabanes to gain entry to the elite club of Sopwith Camel cabane snappers. This I did by carefully dropping it so I still had one left on each side.
20200321_164526 by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
I'm not too worried about it because I know I can sort it out but if you look carefully at the fuselage decals you can see that the varnish did nothing to protect the decals and the got pretty shredded.
Did you know that Rowney odourless turps strips Vallejo satin varnish? I didn't either but I tried to cover my decal repairs with an oil wash, stripped the varnish and shredded the decals a little more!
These decals are lovely in some respects but so brittle, you can see all the little pieces missing here. Again not worried, I can always touch them up with paint or spare bits of decal. I used Micro sol on them, perhaps this is part of the problem.
20200321_164722 by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
I'm not ready to declare this innings closed yet but will treat it all a learning experience. There are far bigger problems in the world right now so I'm still smiling!
I hope this post has raised a smile, I said at the outset I was a clumsy man and am actually quite pleased with how it's going. Got to keep yourself occupied in these challenging times!
Happy modelling and thanks for reading.
Richie