Friday, January 1, 2021

Estes Saturn 1B, #7251 Build, Part 34, Antenna Gluing


I still have a paper wrap around the body for protection while handling.

The antennas are set to the side of the glue area and a pencil line is drawn. Do the same on the right side - draw a line inside the right side of the antenna.






Carefully scrape off the paint down the pencil line.
This scraped line is inside the let and right border edge of the antenna pieces. If you scrape outside the the final antenna position, you will have some tricky paint touchups.



Once again a line of Beacon Fabri-Tac glue was set down the sides of the antenna back. Don't use too much glue or it might squeeze out on the sides when pressed into position.

The more you look at the tough masks, the more touchups you realize are needed. I did more cleanups.


Build time:
Glue antennas: 30 minutes
Additional paint touchups: 15 minutes
Total build time so far: 26 hours, 40 minutes

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