Estes Sasha Build #7271, Part 11, Upper Motor Mount & Fins

I've already deviated from the assembly order and glued on the upper fins.
It's probably easier to glue in the upper motor mount before the lower fins. They'll be in the way when smoothing out the low centering ring fillet.

The ring of glue shown in the lower picture is probably too much. I don't want it to shrink the body tube and make a "Coke bottle" indentation ring.





The mount was slipped in, both tube ends are even.

Here I'm applying a glue fillet using a Q-tip, one drop of glue at a time.






The tunnels are glued on.
They are balsa, the grain was filled before gluing on the body tube.







The lower fins are glued on, even with the end of the body tube.

The small fins are placed between the upper fin positioning lines. Notice the lower tunnel is in line with the small rear fins.