Estes Low Boom SST #7289 Build, Part 4, Jet Engines Assembly

I'll be dedicating a few posts to the construction of the jet engines. These are the most involved part of the build. 

At the top is the middle piece, below are the right and left sides.
TIP: You might want to fill the balsa grain with CWF before gluing the engine together. It would be difficult to fill the leading and trailing edges (and visible interior) after it is glued up.

Test fit, test fit! test fit, before gluing.

The center struts fit well, I didn't remove the hold down tics left from the laser cutting for a tighter fit of the strut tabs.




The center engine piece shown here is upside down. You can see the sanded CWF filler on the flat face at the front and rear.
The two notches got small drops of glue for the interlocking horizontal struts.
The inset picture shows the struts 90 degrees to the center piece.



The horizontal support struts are glued onto the larger center piece.

After that dries the sides are glued on. Note the tabs are recessed.
I wish the tabs were a little longer so they would extend beyond the outside face of the side pieces. It would be better to sand a longer tab flat and end up with less filling to do.