When I printed up the nose cone marking guides from JimZs, it ended up too large.
I tried to use it anyway, extending the marks to the center. Using a knife and straight edge, wedge cuts were made.
This was slipped over the nose section to give an idea how the back vertical strips will be placed.
A master template piece was cut from the old standby - Con-Tact Blackboard Covering Material.
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After the first two vertical black strips were set down on opposite sides. A strip of paper was wrapped halfway around and marked at the the two black strip centers.
The area between was divided into thirds. These pencil marks are the center of the two strips, between the first two set down.
I can't recommend the Con-Tact Blackboard trim enough!
The Estes instructions say to mask and paint the black strips. The Contact paper is so much easier and about as thick as a layer of paint. It lays down like thin, re-positional vinyl.
The vertical black bands also help hide any slight depression left from the shroud tab gluing areas underneath.
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