Thursday, May 15, 2014

Estes Python 4 Build, Part 1 Parts



Here's another one I picked up cheap for $8.99 at a collectors store in Orlando.
The Python 4 (#EST 2054/1245) was a Launchables packaged model from the Enduring Freedom missile series.
Some parts were much like the recent Paveway build.
The upper picture shows filler in the tube seams. I'd already started before the picture was taken.

The parts of interest:
The stick on decals - I'll be drawing and printing up some water slide decals.
Die cut fin conduits. These are thin card stock pieces that glue under the long tapered middle fins.
Blow molded adapter. This is the same one used in the Paveway kit.
There is a 20/55 adapter on the upper end, it isn't used in the kit.
After it is cut off, it's never mentioned again in the instructions.
The instructions also include a second fin marking guide for a smaller, upper BT-20 tube. The upper tube is a BT-55 like the lower tube.
The nose cone looks a little like a small Big Bertha cone except there is a molded recessed line near the top. 
A single 1/4 oz. "butter pat" of clay weight.
A very tight fitting red coupler. (Don't use the "New Stronger Formula" Elmer's on this one!)

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