Lovely mess o' magnets and clamps.
Just adding my inner cover strips first before starting with the outer ones. I felt like adding the outer cover strip to my right bicep today, even though the other side isn't secured yet. Couldn't be helped. I was just too excited to see a tiny part of my armor look 'proper', even if it's covered with clamps and magnets for now.
And I painted these:
I still have to do some clean up around the edges, but it's coming along. I really like the painting part of this kit.
The nice thing about working with the Testor's paint is that it's really forgiving. It allows for lots of time to undo mistakes with some thinner. I even made a mistake of painting one of the buttons gray that was supposed to be blue. I easily wiped it all off with an old towel and some thinner.
For me, the best brush to use for the buttons is a small thin curved brush. Painting on the buttons is kind of like painting nail polish on your nails. With nail polish, you put a dab of polish in the middle of your nail, and push it down toward the cuticle. For the buttons, I put some in the middle, and pushed it gently outward to the edges. Any mistakes can be cleaned up after with a tiny bit of thinner on a very small brush. Besides, the button circles aren't supposed to be perfectly round if you're going for the screen authentic look.
Here's my setup for painting (and cleaned up buttons). These plastic palettes are awesome!
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