New Way Mars Snooper II, Build, Part 16, Red Paint and Landing Gear Gluing

Don't glue in the nacelle nose cones yet!

Check out the third picture below

I usually pull the nose cones and adapters out of the tubes about 1/16". This allows paint to get into the shoulder a bit and insures coverage if the nose cone isn't slid all the way in.

This is a tough model to spray evenly. Notice the right side of the pod root edge. Spray the inside recessed areas first then shoot the model overall. 

A piece of paper towel was rolled up and slipped into the open end of the pod. 

This kept paint out for a better glue joint of the landing gear centering rings.

No need to glue the pod nose cone in place yet.

The picture on the left shows the model turned upside down. 

With the landing gear centering ring spaced 1/8" from the bottom of the tube, the top ring (right picture) ends up close enough to the top for an easy glue fillet using a Q-tip.

A glue fillet is applied with a Q-tip around the lower ring joint.

After the inside top ring gets a glue fillet, the nose cone is glued in using Beacon Fabri-Tac.