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Mark,
From what I can gather from the Semroc instructions and the Mark Piatowski drawings, the demarcation line should be .78 inches below the tube shroud/BT joint between positions II and III (black over white). Between Positions III and IV you are looking at .78 inches (white over black).
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My LAUNCH Magazine Arrived Today!!
The current issue of LAUNCH was waiting for me when I came home from work. Talk about
perfect timing, I'm now "torn" between the urgency to finish the build of the Saturn 1-B and/or reading this issue! More later.....
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Nope. My eyeball says halfway down the smooth wrap. Don's 0.78 response earlier is probably pretty darned close, and I'd think that's about 2.3 down the smooth wrap, a little more than my half. |
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Yep, I've started having nightmares about black and white tubes.... and fiddly-bits....oh the horror of the fiddly-bits!
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J. Stuart Powley NAR 29573 "Gravity is a harsh mistress." |
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Ok, I've got the eight fuel tubes masked and already started on the base gloss white coat
of paint. Pics below. While I'm at it, I've pulled out my Estes 1/70 scale Saturn 1-B kit's box for your viewing pleasure (the kit's components are still in the box!).
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Looks like we've got about 6 models in white, and the other 4 are pretty much ready to paint white. We're planning on starting the masking job tomorrow night. Pictures attached show the progress to this point, and the visitor that decided to lend a hand
John |
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OK, all you folks who are painting the fluted shroud assembly AFTER it's been installed (Dave, John & Co. etc.)...how the [Heck] do you mask the tubes around the upper portion of the shroud that tapers to a fine point in the gap between tubes? I've always heard one of the advantages of painting this after installing is that you can fill the gaps better, but I'd think masking off those tubes but still leaving the fluted shroud exposed to paint would be a huge pain.
From Dave's photo, it looks like there's some masking tape over the tubes, but I can't really pick up enough detail to see how closely it's masked. I just finished up the shroud last night on mode #2 and was about to get started on paint tonight, though am now mulling over the possibility of installing it first/painting it later to give me a shot at filling the gaps. |
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I got (what I thought) would be the last coat of white on mine last night, but I had some paint issues where some of the fins attach - the paint blistered and bubbled. I will fix that tonight and hopefully get black painted on Thursday night. I am out of town this weekend so I am hoping I am done with all of the glitches that cause rework.
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Jeff Taylor MASA Section 576 NAR 87148 L1 SAM 160 |
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Chan,
I think what you see as masking tape is actually FnF. I'm masking mine today. I'm actually going to try to wrap paper around the tubes that stay white (there's that gap between the tubes) and then just over lap the tape onto the paper. I'll let you know how it works. It's kinda hard to explain so maybe I can get a picture of it posted at lunch.
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Put the scallop shroud on last night and fnf'd it. Fins are done, they just need to be attached. Doing the wraps tonight and finishing the capsule. I'm taking Friday off just to make sure I get this done in time.
Carl, do they need to be back by the 7th or can they go out on the 7th?
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