Estes Saturn V #1969 Build, Part 39, Interstage Wrap Black

This is the 9/16" wide horizontal stripe. and a time consuming part of the mask. You'll be going in and out of the corrugations and have to keep the line consistent when viewed straight on.
Ask any sign painter what is the hardest surface to paint - He'll tell you: "Lettering and painting over corrugations."

In the top picture, there is a piece of tape set down right above the top of the band. This is not used for masking, it is just a visual aid. If you get too close to the tape the ink will bleed under it.
Just the tops of the corrugations are marked in a straight line.


The tape is removed.
As before on the transition wrap, the low dips in the corrugation are filled in, up to the black edge on the high corrugation ribs. I found it easier to fill in from below and going up to the previous line.
Relax, this will take some time.





Other lines can be widened after the first ultra fine point lines. Here is a fine point Sharpie running right down the corrugation dip.

A regular fine point Sharpie was used to widen the black borders.
Again, these borders were wider than they need to be.
Using these initial inked borders, masking still has to be carefully done, you'll hopefully have a sharper outside border edge before spraying the black. This is critical when going in and out of the raised corrugations.

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