In terms of paint, Joseph found that this particular brand works the best. He had been using "finger paint" level of quality water based paints which although light tend to flake off of the mylar. However this paint sticks very well even after several applications of tape (wing joining). Total weight gained was about 3 to 4 grams for paint. Basically the entire structure was painted starting with white, then red, then yellow then blue. Each section was reverse-masked. Joseph recommended to me this approach because if you paint a base coat of white then paint the other colors on top, the reverse side is opaque . By reverse masking, it allows the blue, yellow and red to show through top or bottom of the wing, for example. This is great quality paint and very easy to work with and spray.
