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Old 09-29-2008, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by zog139
John why would you not paint the tubes black if you started over ? This worked well for me on the second model I built. Just curious what you and others have to say.


I am still juggling the idea of painting the fins prior to attachment.


Guess I gotta get rolling here soon, the deadline is coming.



Jim


Jim:

I've tried each way on the Semroc, and while it's definitely a matter of peronal preference, I lean towards attaching first, painting/masking later. Pre-painting the fins is definitely easier on the painting of both the fins and the shroud, but I still had very slight alignment issues where the white/black borders on the fins might not exactly match same on the fin can despite measuring what I felt was very carefully. More of a factor to me, though, was the fillets. I went with a very subtle (applied with a .5mm syringe) white glue fillet that dried clear, and it just didn't look as sharp as a fillet that had been painted over. I touched 'em up by hand, but my brus is nowhere near as pretty as my airbrush.

YMMV...
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