Ok so the bridge rim paint job has been an actual hellish nightmare!! I painted it blue-green eggshell dark, but the paint mixture's staying power when dried was terrible and left me having to peel it off and do it all over again. Here are those pics. UGH
Here is after I peeled off masking tape
Its actually worse than the picture shows on the other side. It is NOT cool at all, a lot of paint kept coming up with painting mask even after scoring the edges!! which led me to purchase high quality vinyl painting masks and it came in 6 rolls for $8.00 so it was a bargain, considering they go from 5 mm to 1mm in sizes. Heres a pic with the masking re-applied.
The final result was FANTASTICALLY Better than before. Very little cleaning is needed except for paint mask residue on the saucer which I desperately have to figure out how to get off. I tried rubbing alcohol but that didnt work at all. Heres a pic of the result
Now, I designed, rendered and printed decals for the Green-Strawberry photoetch Arboretum Set as well as the shuttle bay, which came out spot on for the walls shown below.
I also went back and printed my workbees because the stock ones were not accurate and detailed unlike mine, which I printed on clear so I can light them if I wanted and decal them as well. You can see they are heavily physically detailed and just a touch bigger than stock to make them more accurate.
Here are the other decals that I made for arboretum deck, such as wood paneling for the bridges and metallic detail for the doors. I made wooden paneling for the park benches but didn't use them.