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Old 05-30-2016, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by LeeR
I've bought a few Shuttle Express kits just for the nose cone. If you want to paint, I've found a great way to keep the canopy blue while repainting the rest. I use Micro Scale Liquid Mask. It's slightly thick, so it does not run. I use a small brush and paint the canopy. Let it dry, then spray paint the nose cone. After about a day I use the point of an X-acto knife blade to lift an edge of the mask. It peels up very cleanly.

I did something like that on my Xarconian Cruiser, only backwards -- sprayed the nose cone, then used liquid mask around the canopy and sprayed the canopy. Worked pretty well. For whatever reason it looks better in person than in the photo.
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