A Map-scale Overlord-C
Something got me more excited about the DropShip than anything else in the Mercenaries KS loot, so that's what I properly started with. Since I had taken the first photos in Spring I had washed all of this with soap water, which is when I noticed that the engine nozzles were fully open.
Build prep
Cleaning the landing struts was pretty simple. I filed and sanded the worst mold lines from the upper and lower doors. From the inner curve I also scraped with the roughest quarter of my nail file to give them more to glue on.
I also scratched some crossmarks onto the receiving ends in the hull, so that the glue could have more to hold onto. The nail file would've had the best surface for this but it didn't simply fit inside this shape. I decided this was better than nothing, and I wasn't really concerned about the glue even without this step, it was just another "just in case" moment.
Black primer
No real explanation here. I primed the hull black with Vallejo's Black Primer. I was already thinking of how I'd actually paint this, but before that I had to get the landing struts also done without making a fuss out of it.
The remaining six pieces got primed the next evening. One of them, as the photo revealed, got to be a test piece for how the grey looked like on the upper armour plate.
Next up, following the November's overcast theme: shades of grey.
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