The kit has some trim pieces for the pods but they were not as shiny as the chrome trim I had.
GOTCHA: The kit supplied decal didn't fit around the nose cone as shown on the face card. I ended up placing it around the body tube, below the nose cone.
At the base is the shinier Monokote chrome trim.
The lower adapter was painted metallic silver.
I tried a strip of white decal paper but didn't like the contrast. I went with a strip of the Contact paper.
Before gluing onto the standoffs, the pod paint gluing line was sanded to the tube surface with a sanding block.TIP: Shown in the second picture, the upper bar decal didn't make it all the way around the tube. I started and finished the decal wrap on the inside where the gap won't be seen.
Another "gotcha" -- the painting instructions for the "admiralty colors" depicts the pods as painted black rather than white as depicted on the facecard and catalog image.
ReplyDeleteHi Naoto,
DeleteI followed the face card picture - sort of! Both the Centuri (catalog) and Semroc (online) pictures show a slightly different color treatment from their respective kit face cards.