Rocketarium Hydra Sandhawk Build Part 18, Nose Cone Mask

This is the nose cone mask for the lower flames.
While the face card art shows red above and dark red below, the online picture shows orange and brown below. I went with the online picture.

The Scotch tape segments are in place around the nose cone.
The masking tape strip on the left was a guideline so the base of the flames would be somewhat straight.

At the base of the nose cone is a darker brown, a mistake on my part. the paper wrapped around the BT-60 tube holder slid up over the nose cone base before the orange was sprayed. It should be covered with the brown primer coat.

This brown primer color was from an old can of $1.00 Walmart paint.

Here the Scotch tape mask is being removed. The lines came out very clean.

Before the paint totally cures some of the rough edges were pushed back into the brown side with the flat side of a knife.

There was a paint ridge on the brown side.
Instead of sanding it off and risking removing the paint, the ridge was  pressed down with the back barrel of a Sharpie pen.
I didn't rub back and forth, I simply rolled the smooth pen barrel over the ridge flattening it out slightly.