Hi guys, a bit of an update on QuickDraw:

I've been busy with the backglass still, got a fair bit more done in it over the last couple of days.
In these pics i'm redoing the cowboy's left arm. and what a painful exercise that was, due to the fact that this area had the silver mask over the back, so it took a LOT of time and careful cutting with a scalpel. Basically i had to look for the black keyline imprints from the BACK of the glass and cut with a scalpel blade heated in a flame (so the blade would 'melt' its way thru the paint and not chip it), as close to the keylines as i could manage without damaging areas i wanted to save.. VERY tricky exercise that was!!

I tried to save the black detail lines (creases in his sleeve) but it was just too hard to do so i ended taking all of the paint off and redrawing the detail back in afterwards, using a picture as a guide, i took a picture from the front, and printed out a front view as well as a reversed (mirrored) image to copy from while redrawing the lines back in by hand using a sharpie pen (2nd and 3rd pics). After i had the lines drawn in i trimmed them up by scraping with the scalpel blade so they matched the picture as close as i could manage.

Last pic shows the results.