Weekly Herald: Walls Primed

The colours of the raw parts are somewhat toy-like and don't do justice to the detail in the mouldings. I'm going to give this model a little more realistic paint scheme, and the first step is to prime the surfaces. For this I used Tamiya's white fine surface primer.

The walls are a bit thin, so even with a uniform layer of primer applied, there's a bit of a yellow cast when light is shone through the model. I'll need to paint the inside black to make the structure a bit more opaque.

And, if you were wondering, I did straighten one of the walls a bit by freeing the problematic partition and gluing in a slightly longer stretcher piece. No doubt at sometime in the future when this model is for sale on some forlorn swap-meet resale table a potential purchaser will wonder what kind of a nut couldn't measure a partition properly and created this vile glue bomb of a kludge :-)