Base colors and post shade completion

Another pretty productive day of work, with the plane taking base colors.  I did have to go back and fix a hiccup after the initial base coats after noticing a pretty prominent overhang of the canopy on the port side.  Required a bit of grinding, sanding and polishing to get it back up to par, but it looks much better now.  Pretty simple scheme on the body itself with no issues.  I do lighten the light ghost gray required on the belly, as you simply cant tell a difference between the light and dark ghost grays in this color.  The demarcation line that runs across the aft fuselage, and from the forward part of the canopy to the nose is practically invisible without lightening or darkening one of the two.  Seeing as how the dark ghost gray is the most notable color that will be seen, I opt to make the enhancement on the belly side to lighten the LGG in order to sell the demarcation lines better.  Post shading went off without a hitch, and the tails took on rudders and paint today.  Naturally, the rudders are position in the toed in position for the setup on the catapult.  Nothing too hard was required in that, just making sure that both rudders were symmetrical during the welding process.  Reinforcement support braces next to the vertical tails were added earlier this morning before paint .  Best way I can recommend to do this is to soft install the tails as they will be positioned, and install each brace to where it touches up to the vert. tail flush.  Once it's in place, hit it with some weld, and you can remove the tail to be installed later.  Al\l in all a pretty productive day. While painting the tails gloss black, I went ahead and took a moment to also prime the burner cans to take on Alclad paints in the next day or so.  Always good to give yourself a few days for that gloss black to dry a bit, even though it never seems to fully cure.  Rushing it can sometimes result in nasty cracks in the Alclad finish due to the gloss black shrinking during drying.  Better to play it safe than to have to go back and fix it all over again.  Tomorrow I'll be spending a good portion of the day dirtying her up with corrosion fixes, tonal variations, and wear and tear.  Hoping to have her gloss coated and ready for decals by the end of tomorrow.