Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Estes Mercury Redstone #1921 Build Part 10, Capsule Assembly Part A




The Centuri instruction illustrations show the capsule and tower parts still on the sprue trees. In my kit most of the parts were separate. 

Look close at the edges and smooth over any left over flash.





Dry fit, dry fit, dry fit!
(Did I mention dry fitting the parts?)

There is three sides to the capsule. Be sure to line up the round window. (The round window is from the first Mercury Redstone flight. The second Liberty Bell capsule had a trapezoid shaped window.






The Estes instructions have you glue the sides together then fit them into the top and bottom pieces.
Don't glue the capsule sides into the bottom ring coupler, use it to help alignment.
With all capsule sides glued together my assembly actually snapped into the lower ring.








There were forum posts about the decals being a bit pink.
The pinkish-red decals match the color of the molded plastic parts.

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