I took a longer than normal dowel to apply a glue bead for the engine mount gluing.
Towards the bottom of the dowel is a pencil mark for a glue depth gauge.
From the rear, the engine mount is glued in place.
The engine hook is in line with the bottom removable fin.
This picture was posted earlier showing the difference in opacity between the black nose cone and the black wrap decal.
I wanted both of these blacks to match in density.
A mask template was cut out of paper, traced from a decal print.
This crescent shape follows the half wrap decal at the black / maroon color decal separation.
No sticky tape was used at the mask line, just the paper wrap. Sticky tape might lift the decal. Note the paper wrap mask is a double thickness. The Metallic Black Rusto paint is thin so two layers of curved, cut white paper were used. The mask edge is almost a very small blend.
When spraying the paper mask I was careful to shoot the paint directly above the paper line so no paint could go underneath.
This mask was a risk but it turned out better than I thought it would.
The Metallic Black also matches the black on the guns half way down the body.
Masterfully done!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed,
DeleteThe nose cone mask worked!