Strange morning for me, the little princess did her usual early riser thing, I gave her milk and she went back to sleep. She woke up 15 minutes before my alarm, then went back to sleep and is still sleeping at the time of writing this 8:30 AM. A lot of my normal routines are thrown off by this, usually she takes two naps a day, so today might only be one. She almost certainly has wet bedsheets by this time and they should be changed anyway. Hopefully sleep will beget more sleep. Good work was accomplished yesterday with painting my armor, currently I was thinking the painting idea was so good maybe I should be completely covering the armor in paint, it would save me from any future rust. A benefit of having steel is to see the steel, if it’s all covered then it might as well be plastic. The paint I used already was a white primer by Rustoleum because I needed something to grip the metal, allowing future paints a material to grip onto. The Rustoleum is an oil based paint while my top layer is a shiny gold acrylic paint. A difference between acrylic and oil that people might not know is that oil paint breaths for sometime. The oil is releasing gases for days and weeks after use, that means I have to wait to finish with the gold. What happens if acrylic is put over oil too soon, and I’ve done this before, is the oil will continue to degas and acrylic paint is like a sheet of plastic, the gases have nowhere to go and break through the acrylic, showing cracks in the paint.
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