Doing my first model in a long time. It's also the first time I've worked with photo etching. I had spent a while on the hull, sanding and filling. I then started gluing the PE parts on (doors and secondary gun windows) so that when I painted the hull, everything would be painted at once.
Unfortunately it didn't go well. Some of the superglue got everywhere and in general it looks like a sloppy job, despite putting a lot of time and effort into it. Sometimes the parts fell crooked and had to be reapplied or straightened. Other times I accidentally put too much glue on, so that is spilt around the PE part. So a lot of the parts were messy. Some are still crooked because the glue kept drying too quickly for me to get the fit 100% correct. That's okay, but I'm more concerned about the messiness that remains. I spray painted the hull and hoped that the mess would be covered up, but it's still very distinctive. You can definitely tell the glue made a mess.
I wanted this model to be great but already it looks like a sloppy job. Is there any way to reverse the damage? Would a second coating of paint mask it?
Pictures:
http://imgur.com/a/berXy