Sunday, January 6, 2013

Dr. Zooch Saturn V Build Step 11 Fit and Gluing Details Part 4

The bottom of the long tunnels were notched for a better fit over the wraps.

On the right I'm scraping a little of the paint off down to the body tube for a better glue joint.
Look all the way down to the lowest wrap and you can see the black area the bottom of the tunnel glues on.
Using an aluminum angle a pencil line was extended up the tube.

I simply scraped off the pencil line down to the body tube surface.
Again, don't make the width of the scraped line wider than the tunnel piece.

After the tunnel was glued on and checked for straightness, tape was applied until the glue set up.

Don't put masking tape over the printed wraps!
You could pull up the printed lines when you remove the tape.



The finished tunnel, glued straight down the tube.

The model is almost finished!
Launch lugs and decals are all that is left.

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