Thursday, March 21, 2013

Centurion Project Part 8 Cosmic Explorer Fin Decals


The supplied red fin stripes aren't long enough to sit centered on the fins as shown on the face card picture.
Luckily the fins are tapered, the outside edge is shorter than the root edge.
I kept sliding the stripe away from the root edge until it spanned from the leading edge to the trailing edge.
I cut a piece of card stock for a baseline template. By using the template, all the four stripes will be parallel with the root edge and vertical.

I guessed at the height of the template and was wrong.
It reads 1 9/16" away from the root edge but should have been 1 11/16" tall. Still, it helped to align the fin stripes.


Four fin stripes are provided.
I had built a Semroc Centurion a few years ago and thought the red stripes went on both sides of the same two fins.
After looking at the old Centuri instructions I could see one stripe went on each fin. One stripe on each left fin side.

The ends of the stripes are squared and should be trimmed after they have dried. Don't trim them before they dry, they are too flimsy when wet and you'll get a rough edge.

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