Steampunk Protostar, Part 36 - Preparing To Paint

 The Protostar is now fully ready for the base color paint coats.   Obviously, since there is so much fine detail on the model, I am bypassing any primer steps and going straight to the finish coats.   A little prep work is required before this happens:

First, some CWF is applied to some of the rivet panel seams.  Some of them have gaps between the panels that might hinder the placement of some more future detail elements.  Once the CWF is dry, it gets sanded level.  This has to be done very carefully with a thin sanding stick so as not to disturb any of the rivets.

Finally, the locations where the launch lugs and other details will be glued on get masked to keep paint off of those areas.  

Now, I just need to wait for a suitable day to paint outdoors...