Surprise surprise - more prep-work ;) (Patreon)

It's been a hectic week. I feel like I'm starting to make some progress on fairing the cabin top and all the other prep work for painting the deck. For certain I can say that I'm 46 hours closer to finishing Athena. That's roughly the amount of hours I put in over the last week. I'd gladly have put in more time but my pesky day job got in the way ;) I'm excited to finish the deck so that I can get to relax a little bit and go visit Ava. 

When I'm not working on Athena I'm trying to figure out the deck hardware situation. I'm still hopeful that I'll be able to apply KiwiGrip (grey) this fall. The plan was to tape off an area around each piece of deck hardware to leave a little white boarder. I'm starting to think it might look better if I don't. I'd have to come back in and sand each little spot where I'll be mounting deck hardware but that's not a big deal. What do you guys think? By not having the white border I'm hoping the deck will look less "busy" (I hope that makes sense).

I'm coming up on another important detail. The color of the cabin top (and the rest of the deck). So far I've been just wanting to go with RAL 9010 (a very white white). It's properly just due to the fact that I'm running out of time to change my mind but I'm starting to doubt that decision. I haven't purchased the paint yet but I will have to make a decision at some point this week. 

I'm going to go hit the showers to get rid of all the fairing dust before my Sunday Facetime call with Ava :) I hope you've all had an awesome weekend!