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Question was asked on a painting thread this week: Masking fluid sucks, what can you use instead that's reusable and won't ruin paint or be a huge problem to get off?

The answer is Silly Putty, y'all. Easy to get, easy to use, and reusable for quite a while before the paint mixed into it makes it less useful.

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While the monthly thread was looking for a mini to paint for february, I mentioned that I had just gotten my my printer going again, but the thread would be competing with Battletech, and somehow that snowballed into the whole thread painting Catapults, because it's one of the great battletech originals.

Anyway here's eye of the tiger. Cyclist rescued from a misprint of infantry.

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I screwed up yesterday trying to get the cockpit windows done, and it wasn't fixable, so I threw it into... THE DIP.

Today, it took me 1:45 to re-prime, base coat, stripe, and then do the lasers and some very dilute wash in the missile ports, plus the sides of the hex base.

Later tonight, I'll start basing, and call it done. The cockpit isn't defined enough to bother.