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Old 01-06-2019, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MarkB.
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Done! (Well, mostly)

Attached are the images. The first is the the rocket all in primer. I went with Duplicolor Black Primer on the tube and nose with a minimal amount of overspray on the fins focusing on the repaired area. My experience is red plastic is extremely hard to paint over without getting bleed-thru. This is critical for the white nose but I decided a little red bleeding through the copper on the fin unit wasn't necessarily bad. The primer helped seal up the water-damaged body tube pretty well.

No outdoor picture because it's raining on-and-off and the lighting is bad but the second picture is the final. Colors are Rustoleum spray Copper, Camo Deep Forest Green and Flat White in the alternate Nike-Smoke scheme. The scheme works well for this model with its pronounced fin can. The nose was tricky to mask but it worked out.

The parachute needs a little more work, but that'a all the rocket needs to be ready for launch. The kids want to go launch so maybe by the end of the month.
That copper paint, over the red plastic, has a nice--and not unrealistic--crimson tinge to it, like that of some 1/2" copper tubing that I've seen. It might be due to some "within spec" impurity in the copper, but some of the tubing has a reddish coloration. The overall paint scheme reminds me of a Nike-Nike-Smoke (launched from Punta Lobos, Peru) that Dr. Bob Kreutz scratch-built a scale model of a few years ago; that round had three large, Nike-Ajax booster fins on each stage's Nike rocket motor.
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