Friday, January 14, 2011

U.S.S. Atlantis - Step 11, Marking the warp drive tubes.




This step is very simple and straight forward. All we are doing is marking up the tubes for the warp drives. The only trick here is that the direction of the marking guide is critical in order to get the details properly located on the left and right warp drives.





As you can see in the photo the "L" and "R" on the marking guide indicate which tube you are working on. For the left tube, the "L" is oriented to the rear, for the right tube the "R" is oriented to the rear. In this picture, we are marking the right tube.





Since these tubes are a bit small, I propped them up on a CD jewell case in order to make use of the door jam for marking the straight lines on the tubes.





Ok, so now our lines are drawn and labeled and we're ready for masking and painting just like we did for the main fuselage.

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