The sides weren't even. This would be a poor fit on the body.
Some medium CA was applied to just the lower edge to harden up the card stock. This makes it easier and cleaner to sand.
Light sanding followed with 220 grit on a sanding block.
I stopped when the launch lug was touching the sandpaper.
Here's two of the rocket housings.
I'm not happy with the way these turned out.
Build time this post: 0 hour, 30 minutes
Total build time so far: 30 hours, 10 minutes
Would it have been easier to just sand those parts to shape from some balsa stock? Seems to be large enough that it would be easy to handle. Although I guess making a number of them to a precise shape would be tough.
ReplyDeleteHi Neil,
DeleteYep, but not balsa. The fix is coming up in the next blog posts.