Masked off the cabin and engine, the painted the upper glare shield area with good ol' rust oleum flat black from Ace hardware. 3 coats will hopefully be somewhat durable, but if it starts to look beat up I'll cover it with felt or vinyl for something. It would be a bear to repaint this after the windscreen is in.

The fwd edge of the black paint was carefully masked to the edge of where the sika fillet for the windscreen will abut. Thats one reason it took 3 hours- I wanted to make sure I didn't have any unpainted area at the windscreen base, but also wanted to make sure I'm not trying to stick the sika to rattle can paint.

I guess I forgot to take. picture of it, but you get teh idea.