Jordan
It looks like were about at the same place with our carriers; I just spent today painting my freshly sandblasted hull.
My paint didn't come out quite as planned either, despite the use of a couple NOS parts and the computer paint reader thing. And even with 50% flattener (and this stuff costs more than the paint) it still has too much gloss for my liking.
I have seen other guys paint where it also was too glossy, and it's nothing a year or two in the sun doesn't fix.
My girlfriend said it looks brown, which I take as a good sign, because the khaki color kind of falls right in between brown and green, depending on what light you look at it in. I personally though it looked too much like US olive drab, but as it dries, it is moving more towards the Cdn khaki color.
The new production carriers photo is interesting. I always thought the upper armour went on after the engine and powertrain was installed, but the hulls shown in the photos appear to have no powertarain whatsoever, although they include the windows and even the canvass straps to hold the tarp and camnet.
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