Several minor things achieved today.
The seat is wearing coat 1 of 4 or 5 coats of varnish, wand will get a light sanding between each coat. The seat is quite nice timber, though I'm sure that was not a consideration at time of manufacture.
Slide rule brackets are finished and painted, but not yet attached.
I had intentions of putting the upper shield back on today, and the brackets would have gone on shortly thereafter, but I lost some time working on something else. Next post is dedicated to that one.
Second color is now applied to the artillery unit signage. Despite numerous layers of masking tape, some of the solvent caused the blue (applied last weekend) to react with the initial layer of tape, resulting in a slight change in texture. I started to polish this out with cutting compound, and found it heavily scratched the surface. I put a stop to that pretty damn quickly, but not before making another job for myself later on. I'll probably end up sanding both red & blue with 1200 w & d, then applying a satin clear over the whole thing. This will have to be done before I can spray the flat white colored unit number. Figures!