(08-04-2012) More work...

I worked on sanding and polishing the dome some more on Saturday.  It seems I'm never satisfied with the results.  If this keeps up I'm going to go with a matte finish on the dome.

This weekend I also spent some time wandering about Lowe's and found some hardware to mount the skirt to the COM 8B frame.  It looks great!

And lastly, I have been investigating paint.  My current thoughts are to get some transparent blue powder coat and try it out.  This blue looks like it might be something close to what the R2.0 guys did with their blue.  The only down side to this is that it may be too durable and make it hard to weather the blue effectively (show paint chips with metal underneath).