Originally Posted by chanstevens

If you do go that route, consider painting the bads before bonding the tubes to the braces. The brace is not quite full length of the pod tube. That forces you to choose to either mask the brace but only part of the tube alongside it, or mask for bands just spanning the portion of the tubes beyond the ends of the braces, which looks a bit too thin for my taste. I wound up cheating on my first one and used pinstriping, but built a second "do-over" model that looked a lot better, mainly through learning from the mistakes of my first one.