Thanks Mark!
Exercise and errands gave me something less than an hour in the shop. Did two things. Got the Rick House loading dock 'sandwich' glued up and partially sanded. It needs filling and sealing and then painting the same concrete color used for the RH foundation. The dock is not glued to the building in this image. I will also install a bumping strip to the top dock edge and a metal (Plastruct) stair down the left side.
I also got the chess piece base paint done. It took a lot of fussing again to get a reasonable color match. It was made more difficult because of the weathering glaze on the original. I had to peer through the glaze and imagine what the actual color looked like. It's a bit of white, buff, red, yellow, black, etc. Again, I relied on the other base piece I molded so I didn't have to put any extra paint on the real one. I also did some more final sanding on the filler in prep for the painting. I'm going to practice on the spares to do the weathering too. I also added a coating of Dullcoat on the rock portion so that color coat won't bleed the base color that's also on the rocks. Tomorrow I'll do the rocks, then match the pants and boot colors. Once all the color coats are on, I will do the weathering. My goal is that you won't readily be able to tell the difference.
