The pin epoxy trick worked! I poked the pins into some foam and airbrushed the widow's walk semi-gloss black. These are now ready to be installed when that time comes.
I built the left side trim, glued it in place including the last of the 3D printed doodads and then airbrushed it in place with flat white. I had to mask the entire building face to do the airbrushing.
Here's the front trim complete.
Lastly, I masked and then brush-painted artist tube acrylic Mars Black for the attic space AND the waterway in the gutter system. I'm not making the same mistake by leaving bare wood in a partially visible space like I did in the turret window on Nighthawks.
I also did another repair project today. Our Waterpic shower head was just getting awful with water squirting in all directions, and many holes dribbling or completely blocked. I couldn't figure out how to take it apart, so I went on Google and found a nice video on disassembling a model similar to ours. After taking it apart I found little chunks of precipitated lime clogging about 1/2 of the holes. I soaked it all in CLR and then used a small drill in a pin vise to open up all the holes. I put it back together, put it in the shower and tested it. It worked great until the front control ring blew off. I hadn't realized that in order to get it apart I had to break it away from the backing piece, which didn't remove when you took out the plastic nut that holds its all together. I took it back to the shop and mixed up some of the same epoxy I used on the pins yesterday, and it's curing nicely. I put it back in the shower and it will be okay for use tomorrow.
