{"id":579,"date":"2011-12-28T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:37:59","slug":"viper-more-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Viper: More Masking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Okay, it’s probably boring as hell looking at all of the taping I’m doing. This is more for me, anyway, so I can look back and see how nuts I was to do all of this. More of the same as last post, making tape all over the place, Silly Putty and paper towels to seal it all off. In this case, literally 3 hours and 15 minutes of masking, less than 5 minutes of painting, then 10 minutes to rip it all off.<\/p>\n

Engine inset, thruster cans, and intake above the cockpit are all done in dark gray. I used some Alcad metallic Magnesium to give some highlights to the thruster cans (can’t really see it in the photos) and to paint the inside of the nose opening.<\/p>\n

I’m particularly proud and pleased with the third and sixth photos in the gallery below. The full-scale filming model has this entire area in dark gray, but some of the CGI models and some smaller scale builds have it masked off as I’ve done. The third photo shows the massive amount of masking, the sixth shows the result. I couldn’t believe how well it turned out.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t