Saturday, April 26, 2014

MPC USS Enterprise Build, Part 8, Oh Boy - Stickers!



The instructions don't make any mention of the nose cone band.
It's on the lower right side of the stick on sheet.





You can be as careful as you'd like, but the nose cone wrap sticker won't lay flat!
This piece should have been die cut at an arc to fit the nose cone slope.
I cut some notches on the wrinkles and that helped it stay down. But by the next day more wrinkles had raised up.
I'll probably pull this off, the blue gray sticker doesn't match the gray on the body tube wrap.

You are given enough stickers for both sides of the fins.
For my tastes, there is too much going on graphically. I used the stickers on one side of the three fins.
It's easier to place the long, thin stickers before the fins are glued on. These were lifted off the sheet and placed on a knife blade.








The fins were slid in place and CA was run into the root edges.

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