Thank you, Kari!
I’m back in town now, arrived yesterday evening. And the air travel didn’t bother me as bad as I thought it would. Boy am I glad I started Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That helped a lot.
Anyhow, the STUG has been left alone since Friday, and on looking at it today, I’m pleased with how the oil paint washes have mellowed out since I’ve been gone. They do that, it seems. Like Mr. Carlos says, they get absorbed. Which is really a nifty thing. I think one wrong turn I made on my Corsair was not giving the pin washes and fuel stains, which I did with oil paints, a few days to be absorbed before I hit her with another clear coat. She still looks very nice, but she is missing a little bit of that magic I see has happened with the oils on the STUG.
The wash on the floor, and around the gun’s details, does not appear as stark anymore, and some of the lighter dirtiness has come to stand-out under certain lighting. I quite like that. From now on I’m going to give the oils longer than a day to do their thing before I spray clear.
I’ll work on running gear later on today. I seem to have contracted that stomach flu my kids brought home a week ago. Thank goodness it waited until I was off the airplane to get me. Subsequently, I won’t be going to the gym on my lunch break today. So “GOOD...” as Jocko would say “...more time to rest, and model building.”
