{"id":1277,"date":"2012-01-17T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:07:12","slug":"more-sanding-and-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"More Sanding and Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120117-180706.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"Main seam\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120117-180706.jpg?resize=360%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20120117-180706.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main seam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After much debate, I came to the conclusion the only way I would effectively remove the visibility of the main seam between the two fuselage halves was to attack it with some heavy duty sanding. Initially, I tried avoiding this approach as I knew it would remove much of the details around the seam including the panel lines and other greeblies. But after applying the initial coat of primer, it&#8217;s clear the seam is going to require some additional work that will most likely eliminate these details. So to help me recreate these details after the seam has been addressed, I snapped a few photos of the detailing to use as reference. Following which, I wetsanded the seam using some fine and then extra fine sanding blocks I picked up at Home Depot. I think the seam is starting to look better, but will require some additional puttying and sanding.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, I&#8217;ve also been priming the other pieces of the kit in preparation for painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much debate, I came to the conclusion the only way I would effectively remove the visibility of the main seam between the two fuselage halves was to attack it with some heavy duty sanding. Initially, I tried avoiding this approach as I knew it would remove much of the details around the seam including the panel lines and other greeblies. But after applying the initial coat of primer, it&#8217;s clear the seam is going to require some additional work that will most likely eliminate these details. So to help me recreate these details after the seam has been addressed,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boba-fetts-slave-i-fine-molds","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120117-180706.jpg?fit=641%2C854&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-kB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}