On the left is the Winter Gray I used on the Dragon Ship 7 build. It turned out to be too dark.
I did find a lighter gray, the Rusto 2X Stone Gray. It's a satin finish, I might hit the model with a gloss clear coat so the decals will stick.
The gray color shown on the face card looks to be a medium gray. I've decided to go with the Enertek Astra 2000 decor, the design that inspired the Quest kit.
The raised hatches and antenna were sanded off to make the nose cone surface flat. This will get away from the Nike Smoke look. After sanding I will have to hit the nose cone with primer filler again.
Squeeze out a drop of CA glue onto some scrap cardboard. dip a toothpick into the drop of glue and let it dry. This prevents any more glue from soaking into the toothpick.
Dip the toothpick into the glue again so a drop is held on the toothpick tip. Run this drop into the recess line making a bead of glue that sits over the top surface of the nose cone.
It will take a few minutes, but let the CA glue bead completely dry.
On the right is that bead of CA sanded to surface. The recess line is completely filled. After another shot of filler/primer and sanding you shouldn't be able to find the line.
I was surprised to learn that the Striker AGM is based on the Enertek Astra 2000. I just looked at the Enertek catalog from 1989. I had no idea that many of the items I came to learn about as Aerotech products in the 90s were previously marketed as Enertek! Some of those designs are definitely worthy to scratch-build/upscale.
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