Estes Mk-109 Stingray Build Part 4 Fin Prep

The engine mount is shown dry fitted into place.
The TTW fin slot is lined up with the engine mount slots.

You can clearly see the wide seam running around the body tube.
The package advertises "No Painting Required!" Yeah right -
A flat finish body tube with glossy self adhesive decal stickers.
How bad is that going to look?

I'll fill the seams and paint the model gloss white before adding the sticker decals.

That's a BT-50 scrap set into the front of the main body tube.
You can see how much smaller it is.

This tube would have to be called a BT-53, it is slightly larger than an Estes BT-52. I had some scrap BT-52 left from the Thor Agena B build.

This is the front end of a fin near the TTW forward slot.

There is a molding "circle" to the right of the tab on the flat surface of the fin.
These circles are easily sanded off with a sanding block with 400 grit.

Two of the three fins had raised circles.



One fin had a recessed molding circle.
This wil be filled with a "pool" of medium CA glue and sanded to surface.

That little pool of glue took 20 minutes to dry before I could sand it down.