Hello everybody,
after the
Flour coating had dried through long enough, I carefully brushed off the excess flour.
While the result on this side looks perfect,
on the other side there were some strange unevennesses that I didn't like it.
There was probably too much spray adhesive on it, or I had pressed the flour on too hard, which is why I've tried to gently flatten these areas with the abrasive sponge,
and then to slightly deepen the grooves between the strips again with a needle.
Let's see what these places will look like after the priming, maybe I have to sand back everything anyway a littlee bit before painting,
which I will still test on the
Intertank Dummy.
But this looks already better again, and on the
Original Tank (ET-8) not all places look the same too.
Speaking of the original tank, I should have had a closer look at it beforehand,
then I would have noticed that the
Nose Cone area at the top, immediately after the
12th Ice Frost Ramp, was applied as
Closeout and is therefore smooth.
Source: forum.nasaspaceflight.com (Jester)
Therefore I carefully removed the flour layer there again.
Now I will airbrush the primed
Intertank-Dummy to be able to assess the effect with (above) and without smoothing of the flour layer (below),
after which we're smarter then.
