Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 13, Assembly & Scraping

The big nozzle was glued on the motor tube using Beacon Fabri-Tac.
The screw on retainer hub followed.

The auxiliary small rocket "runners" were set in place and the line marked with pencil.
The lines were carefully scraped to open up a glue area.


To smooth it out and widen the line a bit, some 220 grit was tightly wrapped around a Q-tip. This was sanded back and forth down the line. Keep the glue line narrower than the runner width.

This was a tricky scrape!

Carefully mark the intersections with pencil, scrape the lines with a knife blade.



The upper engine is glued on with the tube back ends even.

Right down the center -
A heavy glue bead was applied to the wing.

The large body tube assembly was set into the glue. Carefully check alignment as the glue is drying.