Some time later…

As reported elsewhere, I have been attempting to catch up with a few unfinished projects, some of which needed painting. When I was getting set up to paint I opened my spray booth door and the 18 pounder was sat there on the turntable awaiting paint.

So in amongst the railway wagons I also made a start on painting the gun.

I confess that it was at this point where I thought sod it and painted the supplied gun shield. Once painted I couldn’t live with the moulded on rope and set to with a diamond ball tool in the Dremel to carve/grind it off.

I blew it over with paint but ultimately I decided that I couldn’t live with that either, so back to plan A and scratch build a replacement.

Those of you who have seen my post on the rivet setting tool, will now know what I need all the riveted strips for.