Here's the model after an initial white undercoat and sanding down the fillet blobs.
I thought that would be some difficult masking as the model is so small.
I opted to paint it more like the original Estes Catalog picture, an overall light gray with a white nose cone.
It occurred to me - Wait to glue on the small faux motor tubes - leave those white. Glue them on after the light gray overall paint dries.
Also, wait to glue on the black plastic launch lugs.
On the left is the main body painted an overall light gray.
the nose cone was left a gloss white.
On the right side picture you can see some of the gray paint scraped off to glue on the white faux motor tube.
One motor tube is glued on.
The two launch lugs were left black, not painted. These were glued in place using medium CA glue.
Squeeze out a drop on scrap cardboard.
The lugs were held with tweezers and drawn through the CA puddle leaving a thin line of glue on the underside.
Set the lug in place using the tweezers. Note the scraped line exposing the body tube surface for the second lug on the left.
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