Serenity - March 13 2007

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Painted the windshields of the third set of shuttles

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So for the solar panels I wanted the frames to be a bit distinct from the rest of the solar panels. So I decided to sand them slightly and hope that the black undercoat might show through. However this did not work so I then decided to see if using a sharpie would produce decent results. I know the trying it freehand would not be neat enough looking so I started to mask it off with Tamiya masking tape cut into thin strips. Here they are applied horizontally

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Here is the solar panel and the sharpie

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And after writing on the solar panel

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With the masking tapre removed

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Next is the vertical frame parts

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Finally it is the outside frame. Now that I can do freehand as I can rest the sharpie against the edge to keep it steady ad to draw a straight line. The results look pretty good. Unfortunately it is a bit time consuming and there are a lot of solar panels