I've gotten some more work done since the initial painting was started. It turns out that the amount of effort going in to finishing this rocket is more than I expected, but it will be more exciting to launch it again, knowing the effort that went in. The following pictures summarize the status.
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| I used a piece of tape as a straight edge to mark out the triangles on the interior of the fins. |
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| This is one example of the triangle drawn in place. |
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Here's what it looks like with the triangles
masked off. It took a solid 4 hours of masking
to prepare for spraying the black paint on the
booster section alone. |
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| Starting the black. |
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| The black is completed on the booster section. |
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Masking the forward airframe tube ends. This is just
to prevent the overspray from getting inside. |
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I masked the shoulder of the nose cone and
used the eye-bolt inside to hang it for painting. |
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| Black is complete on the nose cone. |
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| Green on the upper airframe tube is complete. |
Next will be going around every masked line with a razor to lightly score the paint seams before unmasking. This allows the tape to tear away properly and reduces risk peeling or leaving a thick edge of paint.
After that will be orange on the forward tube, followed by black on the forward tube. Then the whole rocket should be ready for clear coat.
This is looking really well. I can't hesitate for the next post. How fast do you know it will go with the new paint? Also, can you post a series of long, informative, videos so my 3 yr old gender-neutral child can think about doing everything you do? It (gender neutral pronoun) is very excited about all this, and is begging you to make these videos for It, but in all honestly will probably not want to do any of this tomorrow. ... Or even remember it. But you should make the videos regardless because I asked.
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