Odd'l Rockets F-18 Hornet Development & Build, Part 9, Paint, Missiles & Trim

The entire model gets spray painted a light gray.

No masking - unless you want the inside surfaces of the rudder fins to be black. A work-around is shown below.

This shows the evolution of the wing missiles.

On the left is an original Centuri Fighter Fleet missile. There is a molding bubble in the nose.

On the right is the new 3D printed small nose cone and fin can slipped into a 1/8" diameter launch lug segment. 

Thanks to David Koo of reallykoostuff.com for the 3D prints.

I used my "go-to" black vinyl for the inside rudder surfaces. The peel and stick black vinyl is self adhesive Chalkboard Contact Paper.

Cut out the decals with the backing paper still on - don't soak the decal yet. Trace around the dry decal and cut inside the pencil lines to leave a gray paint border when centered on the rudder face. 

The bottom edge of the vinyl piece goes into the fin root edge.

Here's the black vinyl piece on the inside face of the rudder.

This is an earlier build before I had the 3D printed missiles.