Estes USS Enterprise #1275, Part 34, Painting The Probe

It's difficult to spray paint the recovery probe, it's over 30" long! It should have been called the "stability extension."

I noticed the upper BT-50 tube dried faster than the low BT-20 end.

It could have been the painting wand locked into the engine mount area. The upper tube was open, I removed the nose cone.

Less air was circulating inside the BT-20 tube.

The probe tube black paint dried rough. I had to sand smooth with 400 grit.