Painting !

CAUTION: Dangerous Steps below!

Following the below steps may add drastically to your overall project time. Similiar steps could easily double the man-hours in your project...or more!  Proceed with caution!

Base Color Insignia White Poly-tone with retarder added to enhance gloss. I also painted when it was cool, about 65Deg  this helps the gloss also. What ever you can do to slow down the drying.

Masking the stripes with Fine line 3-M polypropolene tape.

"The PEEL!"

After shading to give it depth.

Squirtin' on the red.

An now goin back together!...FINALLY!

Well, after all, it is a FIREFLY..gotta have flames on it somewhere! I use 3-m vinyl striping tape to layout the flames and polypropylene masking tape to fill in the mask