P5se Camelback’s EOY Challenge

[P5se Camelback]

I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do with this one, biL. Sure looks gritty. How will you strip it? Galen

All of the parts shown in the "exploded" assembly (except for the wheel sets) are soaking in Lacquer thinner as I write this. I'll so a little "scubby dubby" later on tonight and see what happens. There are more aggressive stiping methods in my arsenal but i'll begin with the meore gental approach ... this is a very old Zamac casting ... I'm going to take it easy.

Photos of stipped parts will follow.

I am hoping against hope that there will not be a ton of surface imperfections as that will really slow me down! This is primarily a "build and apply the details" and "atomize the pigment" project. Surface and surface prep are everything on a deal like this. Masterful application of paint over a poorly prepared surface invariably looks like kukka! I'm just hoping I won't have to spend a week squeezing Squadron Green Putty from a tube and sanding it smooth!

BTW, the apparent grittyness, I'm assuming, is a matter of a complete novice on the business end of an airbrush, allowing the pigment to be dry/nearly dry when it hits the surface.

And, Galen, the quarter was placed there in honor of George Manos, AIA, a favorite instructor of mine at Philadelphia College of Art, whose parting words as we left the classroom after being assigned a new design project in Environmental Design were always, "Don't forget to give it an SOS!" (a "Sense of Scale")