Estes Space Shuttle Columbia Build #1385, Part 14, The First Gray Mask

With the Summer heat and humidity I did get some paint "fogging" on the balsa. The body tube and nose cone dried with a good gloss.

Here's the before and after when the hazy areas were shined up using automotive polish paste.

This is a complicated and time consuming mask.

Here's the Scotch tape initial gray border mask. There is gray around the outside leading edge of the wing and a tapered stripe along the back' 

The smaller white areas were covered with masking tape. 

The larger areas were covered with grocery bag plastic.

The bottom surface is completely masked off for now.

The bottom mill be masked for black - then masked again for some additional gray trim.