Well, I think everything that gets painted the same color or is easily hand painted is glued together.
These are all the loose parts that have to be primed and painted separately. Then glued together and possibly further modified.
The primer takes a week to dry. It'll probably take me a day or two to construct a set of wires to hang all these parts so I can prime them on both sides without flipping them over or handling them. I might take some cardboard and mount some parts just like they'll be glued into the model and then spray prime them.
Primer is the most boring step, but also the most dangerous for screwing up so I'm going to continue to take my time. Also, there's 16" of snow so I'll paint these in my laundry tub: so I'll be building a huge contraption to hold all this somehow.
I went through a spare set of instructions primed off the internet and colored every part. Once everything is primed I'll sort them all into piled by what color they'll be: the interior hull need to be white, some things may get airbrushed but many will be hand painted. Then once everything is painted and glued together the cutaway gets masked off and I prime and then paint the exterior! Two sets of primer mean two weeks of drying time.
Parts ready for priming. Multiple cardboard boxes. Spray the flat, heavy and easy things in the first tray.
Parts that are more likely to move around get put in the next tray; stacked over the first tray and then sprayed.
Parts that need to be held in gloved hand while being primed are in the next tray on top of the others.
Inside of sub hull gets primed last. Wait a few hours and then flip all the parts over and repeat-except for the exterior of the hull. That gets primed and then special treatment much later. Primer says to wait 7 days for full drying.
All the primed parts came out fine except two ladders and the torpedo room bulkhead which just needed a quick spritz. Outside hull gets primed later. Primer is best when thin, so it hides zero flaws! I'll try to wait a week before painting, while the primer sets.
This is the part from step 1 that I was so posed to glue into the hull on step 2. Its flat plate is too wide to fit so I'm trimming it down now so both halves of the hull will fit together. I **still** won't glue it in because the inside of the hull, though primed, needs to be sprayed bright flat white! Bad instruction and bad part. Its component pieces are not glued in any way so those stabilizer sail fins can flick out and retract.
