Thanks to everyone that posted a comment in an effort to help. I finally removed the covering and started again. This time I just covered the entire rudder with yellow and then cut and applied the blue over it. It turned out great with only a few bubbles to work out.

I still have the wings to work on so I'll work more on the overlap method that I used on the horizontal stabilizer rather than a complete covering of the underlying color (yellow) and fighting the bubbles.

Thanks again for all the suggestions. Here are a few pictures of the latest results.