Many restaurants will give out small black plastic containers so you can take condiments home. I cut these up to use as backing against see-through grilles and hatches on armor models.

Because no one will see the inside of the hull, I don’t have to be particularly neat with the super glue; just have to make sure that it doesn’t run out through the grilles onto the hull detail.

When it’s done, all anyone will see is black behind the painted opening.

Tip submitted by:
John Brosnan
Burbank, Calif.