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Painting the greenhouse occurred in record time. Well… record time for me, that is. Ask anyone in the club and they will concur: my painting process can be glacially slow. I started with a black base coat on the bits and bobs attached to the model as accessories. For this, I used black acrylic gesso -- an awesome and extremely useful tip I picked up from Karl a few years back. The gesso doesn’t stick quite as well as primer, but it has a few advantages in that it shrinks to fit, so you can glop it on fairly quickly with ...