Thing One's Spitfire Cockpit Painting and Weathering

As promised, here is the more substantive post. We will continue with the painting and weathering of the cockpit for Thing One's Mk.I Spitfire.

Maybe it was crazy, but I let him use the Infinity. "Just don't drop it" was the only cautionary advice I could think of.

The parts were painted with Model Master Acryl RAF Interior Green and the seat was done with the Tamiya's Hull Red rattle can I had from the last time.

Time to hand paint some details.

Hand painting takes a bit of practice, but he didn't do too bad.

Getting paint on that instrument panel.

Picking out some details on the office walls.

We dry brushed a little white to highlight the black details. I've got some ideas now for my next Spitfire. I'll be dry brushing the ribs with a lightened interior green as well as a little chipping.

Dry brushed the white on the instrument panel. After this was all cured, I hit it with some Alclad Aqua Gloss from the trusty Badger Anthem 155.

Now the fun part, slopping the wash on to dirty it up.

Thing One was trying to paint it a little too much, I had to keep reminding him to just be sloppy with it.

Tada! Now we let it sit for 20 minutes or so.

Clean-up with the tips of Q.

Not that kind of "Q Tip"!

Enough of that. I've never been one for such non-sense!

Washed cockpit parts awaiting cleanup.

She looks well worn Captain!

Office completed and assembled.

The next steps will be assembling the fuselage halves and gluing the cockpit in place. Maybe you'll see it in a couple of weeks? You don't have to wait around, I'll send you an email when it's ready...just subscribe! (What a shameless plug.) Thing One says: "It's difficult putting small parts into their places. Thanks for reading."