Starting the Hull

I'm going to build this one as a waterline model so I'll be leaving the lower half of the hull off. The two large braces across the hull opening needed to be removed with a razor saw so the hull will sit flush on the base. After drilling two holes, two 10-32 nuts were super glued to two flush braces for attaching the hull to the base. A couple of styrene strips were cemented in place to make sure the nuts don't break loose and turn when the screws are tightened. The hanger deck fit very good and liquid cement was liberally applied to make it permanent. A little help from some tape and paint bottles kept it in place until the cement dried. The rest of the parts that make up the area between the hanger deck and flight deck were cemented in place with no problems at all. Model Master Euro 1 Gray was painted on the hanger deck and all weather decks. Model Master Light Gray was painted on all the interior vertical surfaces. In order to keep the raised detail from becoming obscured by painting, I'm trying a different technique on this model. I painted all the portholes and raised details on the exterior Model Master Dark Gray. When I paint the hull color I'll go lightly over these areas to give a shaded effect. The third step will be dry brushing the raised details to (hopefully) make them standout.