Estes EAC Firecat #0821, Build, Part 11, Final Decals & Loose Ends

You've got to cut up the Bandit decals to get the Firecat to look like the face card.

These are the remaining four vertical black rectangles, cut in half. 

Place these on the white side of the body, directly over the rectangles on the BT-48 roll wrap.

The remaining horizontal bars (seen in the first picture above) are cut in half and set behind the U.S. AIRFORCE decals. Because they are short, they won't reach all the way around.

Here's the view from the bottom.

My balsa nose cone was ordered from BMS, #BMS50HJ.

There was a hole in the bottom center, no drilled dowel was supplied or would fit in the small hole.

I was concerned the screw eye wouldn't "grab" well in the center.  

Simple solution - Set the screw eye to the side. Turn it so it won't hit the inside body tube wall.

FIX:

I didn't get good paint coverage on the trailing edge of the vertical fins.

I used a red Sharpie to fill in the red. NOTE: This doesn't always work! Try a small area first. It can fill well on narrow areas like the flat trailing edges of  a fin. It will not work on flat, larger areas.

I forget to paint the toothpick antenna.

It was taped to a dowel, hit with a gloss white coat.

Smooth sanded after drying and sprayed again.