| With all struts flattened, drilled and bent, the dome frame is almost ready. All that remains is painting them. I am giving them the same colors as on the paper model: yellow, red, blue, green, purple and orange. This looks nice and makes it easy to tell the different struts apart during assembly.
It turns out that the painting takes a lot more time than I estimated. Priming or painting 30 pipes takes me around an hour, and I have 262 pipes that need to be primed and painted. That's 17.5 hours in total, longer than the time it took to flatten, drill and bend all of them... But the result looks very nice; I can't wait to assemble the frame for the first time!
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