Painting on the Kiev started

I started by painting the top of all the buildings in orange.

Decks painted orange
Decks painted orange

Four helicopters with rotor blades test fitted.

Four helicopters
Four helicopters

I masked the buildings and started to fit parts that also should be grey onto the buildings.

Buildings masked and some parts glued
Buildings masked and some parts glued

Then the buildings got some light gull grey.

Light gull grey painted
Light gull grey painted

Then I removed the tape.

Tape removed
Tape removed

I then did a little test fit with the building parts and some of the radar masts.

Building test fit
Building test fit

Guns and other small parts was also painted in light gull grey.

Guns and stuff
Guns and stuff

I wasn’t happy with how some seams and puttied areas had turned out. Mainly as I didn’t wanna destroy too much of the rails and other details. I decided that I wanted the surfaces to look smooth, so I sanded them nicely and by that also destroyed some of the details.

Some areas sanded smooth
Some areas sanded smooth

I will try to heat and pull some sprue into thin strings that I’ll use to replace the rails with.
Hopefully that will turn out looking better than it did before.

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