Estes Interceptor Build #1250, Part 15, Masking The Wing Pod

There are a lot of root edges and nooks to get paint on evenly.

As careful as I was to get full coverage there was still a few spots near the wing pods that didn't get enough white paint.
Rusto 2X touch-ups blends in pretty well. Paint was sprayed into a cup and a Q-tip used to roll on some gloss white.

It would have been easier to paint the wing pods separately off the model.  But there would have been that joint gap on the upper part of the pod. The face card model was probably painted that way. The same reason you paint the tail cone black, off the model.

The mask of the wing pods was interesting but not hard to do.
Scotch tape was set down on my patio door glass.
The wing pod was set over it and a pencil tracing was done right around the outside edge of the nose cone. The side of the pencil was set right on the nose of the pod.

Cut down the pencil line first then mark down the drawn line with a permanent marker.
Cut with just enough pressure to cut through the tape. Press too hard and you could scratch the glass.

Trace and cut two right sides and two left sides.

A small thin strip was set over the top.

The curved piece cut in the previous picture is set down the pod/wing joint in the middle of the fillet.