>>6264909Sure is. The old thread was going really slow too, maybe the pace will pick up here.
Anyways I haven't posted an update in a while on this. I actually had the entire base done, but I hated the way it looked. regular cotton balls are fucking garbage, and have a ton of these white speck things inside them. Rayon balls are 100x better, even if I had to spend nearly $40 for 4k rayon balls since I couldn't find any smaller packages of them anywhere online.
I got lucky though, I coated the paintwork with a flat lacquer spray to seal everything in, and luckily I was picking at the cotton trying to see if I could remove it, and I was able to lift practically the entire gloss medium base off the paint without doing any damage at all, allowing me to completely restart the work.
I also am going to make a new base for the Tuscaloosa eventually, I was able to remove the ship from the base, but some damage to the paint occurred which I'm going to have to fix.
