"Mushtang" got it right! It's the second camera/eye on the R2D2 rocket! When the model was glued together I only found on...

The plastic molding was very clean and the parts fit together very well. It's nearly impossible to smoothly hand pain...

The 12" parachute is assembled as normal. The instructions have you loop the shroud lines around the mount then pull the canopy th...

The stickers will lay flat around the main body can. They will not lay flat over the dome head! I went back and cut slits over all the r...

One of the stickers was set on the dome to match the blue paint that will be  brushed on. With the transluscent sticker over the alumin...

The body halves joined, held tight with rubber bands while the glue dries. Later on, stickers will go over the top rounded surfaces. A...

The interior rings are slid on dry, without glue. Once the BT-55 tube is even with the bottom of the body half, the green rings are sli...

The fat centering ring is art of the upper bulkhead. It will glue to one of the flat disks. A ring this thick should be sanded flat, t...

The padded four-sided fingernail files are great for removing the mold tabs and flash on the plastic parts. This is one half of the ce...

Again, this is the smaller version of the Estes R2D2 kit. The larger version had a BT-101 body with a printed wrap. This one has a plas...

The first Estes R2D2 was "available" after March 15, 1978. It was a big BT-101 based model. Recommended engines were a B6-2 and...