Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Dr. Zooch Vanguard Eagle Build Part 34 Nose Cone Paint


The trim colors on the nose cone would involve a change in method.

A blue MonoKote trim band would not fit well around the tapered base of the nose cone. This lowest band on the nose would have to be spray painted blue.
I have an can of old formula blue Krylon that's a very close match to the blue MonoKote used before.


I masked off the lowest area of the nose cone. This is not a critical mask as the lower body tube will give a good color separation.

The lower taper was sprayed blue.

Above this spray painted blue band, a strip of black electrical tape will be applied. Even though this area is tapered, black electrical tape is flexible and should conform well - as long as the strip isn't too wide.



The mask was removed and a strip of black tape was applied above and over the upper masked blue band. The black tape strip overlapped the upper color edge of the blue.






Here's the finished upper body paint and trim.

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