Well I came back from a ski vacation, feeling good about moving on with this. I gave the underside of the wings a quick coat of paint to even out the under wing shadows of the iron cross and tail stripes. Used some Testors acrylic, the premixed stuff in the large rectangular bottles. Painted just fine, as it dried it left huge cracks in the finish. Much deeper than the coat that was sprayed on. I tried to strip it off, but the topside finish got some damage from the removal on the underside. So the flight surfaces went into the brake fluid to be stripped totally, and time to start over again. Really a big setback, might set this aside for a while, and refocus later. Not sure what happened with the paint. The Gunze Sangyo acrylic undercoat had been dried and unpainted for at least 10 days, before the Testors paint was applied. So it shouldn't have been a drying issue. I bought that paint to have a supply of ready mixed basic colours for just a quick squirt of paint when needed, I'll be scrapping that brand of paint from here on in.
