Painting - Day Six

A beautiful sunny day so lots of preparation and painting today. 

I tried out the darkish red colour on the dome.   This is painted over the initial black finish.  Just a single coat here and I like the mottled effect. This will not be the final finish. 

Here is the body with initial attempt to add gunmetal base so I can sand/scratch some of the final coat back a bit to show metal underneath. 

I need to be careful with the gunmetal paint as its corrosive and  acts a bit like paint stripper.  Once dried off its fine, just needs sanding back a bit.  This happened [below] because I had some drips and rubbed them off with a tissue.  Will sand back when dry. 

earlier in the day...

and later,  are several parts painted with the dark green colour and also the metallic silver

I was originally going to have these in the green but have now decided on the metallic finish.   To the left in the picture are the "arms" in green. [below]

The arms and panels in the green, below