I continue to struggle with prime and sand. First gray, where it got a little to deep and rolled up some paper fuzz, smoothed some CA in the area and sanded it down, primed in gray again. Sanded and repaired areas again still not completely happy, but went to white primer sanded, still not completely happy, but am getting tired of working on this one.
I put on a light coat of white, followed by two medium coats. There are areas that really turned out great, and others not so much. For some reason it showed a couple 1/16 wide round pits. I don't think those were there. It almost looked like a paint bubble popped, but I didn't see any bubbles. Anyways, I worked on those and a few other areas and have decided to reprime in gray.
Since I've turned this into training project went ahead and made a baffle. I took 2 of the thin walled yellow measuring tubes, split one lengthwise, trimmed an ⅛, inserted it into the other yellow tube. I cut three disc from some cardboard centering ring stock, sanded those down to a decent fit. Cut them so they were a little more than half circles, glued one in the middle of the tube and then both ends. I didn't want fire getting to the chute. Next time I will use my new hole puncher instead of cutting the disks. Glued the baffle in the lower bodytube, tape fitted it into upper bodytube, VERY tight fit. I want to be able to inspect it later on. Went ahead and filled the seam. I may regret that later when I rip it apart to see how the baffle is doing.
It's ready for priming again, but it's raining. I think there will be sunshine soon.
Oh, and I forgot the launch lug till after the first coat of paint. Duh. I loaded it with a C6-0, A8-0 & A8-5 to find the center of gravity which was way back at the fins on the bodytube. I may need to add some nose weight.
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