Hellraiser.... The Abbreviated Build Thread.

[Coop]

Primer/Paint/Decals.


After the fin can had cured, I backfilled the remaining slots with some aeropoxy light filler, but got no quality photos of the process. I'd considered going around the base with a single layer of light glass, but figured it'd not be worth the effort... would you have done it? Or perhaps something else? How would you handle full-length slots?




Anyways, surface is prepped by sanding off obvious high spots, and then shooting with rattle-can primer. This one, to be precise.




Sand a bit more, and fill in obvious lows with some of this.



Lather, rinse, repeat until I can live with the finish. Process repeated for each airframe section.



Airframes are shot in 2x Gloss Black. Two coats were done, with a wet-sand between.



When I saw Mark from Stickershock was again accepting orders, I contacted him immediately. Pinhead is amblazoned on the FWFG nosecone.



To have a Hellraiser rocket without chains and hooks is just.... wrong. So Mark made up some for me. I had to slice them with the Favorite X-Acto knife at the airframe separation points.



He even made the faces of the infamous puzzle box --the Lament Configuration-- for the fins.



Air bubbles are worked out with a squeegee. I mean, my Tripoli card. Yes, I may have used this JUST to post in a build thread. Heh.





Fins. I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.



Next: Assembled reveal.



Later!

--Coop