A further update on my F-106. Most of this work was done last night.
1. Painted the burner can. I had already brush painted the interior with flat black and sprayed the turbine and flame ring; last night I put a black acrylic wash on them.
2. Sanded off the very, very inconveniently located ejection pin marks inside the intakes and brush painted the intake interior.
3. Painted and washed the ram air turbine. Painted the insides of the turbine door, main gear doors, nav door, torsion links, retraction struts and cylinders. Painted the red nav light that foes in the nav door and the clear ones (painted the back silver) that go in the outer main gear doors.
4. Painted the arrestor hook.
5. Painted and assembled all the gear wheels. Put a coat of white on appropriate portions of the gear struts, but it needs at least one more coat to cover.
6. Assembled drop tanks.
7. Painted speed brake actuator cylinder and the interior green portion of the speed brake.
If I can sneak away from the room renovation I'm doing the rest of this weekend, I'll spray the metal parts of the intakes and air ramp, but I definitely won't get anything else done until Tuesday or later. In fact, it will probably be next weekend because I need to get the text of my quarterly magazine over to the designer, and I'll probably need to put in an evening or two on that. The good news is that with the exception of the main aircraft gray paint job, I have almost every part in the kit painted, so once I actually get the fuselage together and spray it I'll probably be able to complete assembly in a single evening and complet the decals the next.