The silly thing is, most of this work will never be seen, as it faces just millimeters above the top of the center foot shell. Still, it's not a lot of effort, and some small areas on the sides needed a little work. This was a first pass with Evercoat, I probably need to make another light pass tomorrow.
Next, I worked on fitting the ankle bracelets back on. As was the case yesterday when fitting the booster cover parts together, today I found that the paint thickness made it difficult to get the bracelets around the booster covers.
I sanded the paint from the inner perimeter of the PVC ankle bracelets.
After iterative sanding and fitting, I finally got the bracelets around the booster covers.
Finally, I wrapped up by fitting the booster cover slot fillers into the slots on the booster cover top pieces. I had painted these aluminum a little while ago, and once again, the thickness of the paint made for too tight a fit, so they needed to be sanded a little bit too, and then they were able to fit in. It's still a very snug fit, so I didn't need to glue these in. They will be difficult to remove if I ever need to do so, I'll have to push them out from the front.
The Lucasfilm droids have these slot fillers aluminum colored, so that's what I did here. On droid #1, I painted them blue. I think I actually like the blue better, but this is okay too.
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