It all looks a bit garish at the moment like an explosion of blue!

Whilst I wait for the paint to harden on the Italeri Mercedes MP4 truck cab parts I made use of the time by digging out the 3D printed signal box from its resting place on the My Last Great Project 00 gauge layout. Apart from playing operating it over the last few months nothing else has been done to it since probably Christmas time so it is time to get something done!

I had already primed the signal box with a coat of rattle can grey so I had a base on which to put some top coat. As with the station building built from a Dapol kit last year, the woodwork is a dark blue. Given the expanse of wood and the intricacies of the window frames my choice of paint application system was the airbrush! First off though I had to mask the parts that were not to be blue as it would be a job to paint over the blue with other colours. 

There were a few interesting geometric cuts required to the masking tape to get it to fit where it should but after a while things came together.

With the masking done some suitable blue paint was decanted and thinned and then applied to the model.

It all looks a bit garish at the moment like an explosion of blue but once the other colours are applied and some weathering is done it will all tone in together.

In the meantime I need to let the paint dry and then see how effective my masking was!