Monday, September 12, 2022

Estes Space Shuttle Columbia Build #1385, Part 1, Parts



The bag and face card are very large!
Turn over the bag and you can see all the empty space.

They could have fit everything is a bag half as wide.

Here's all the parts:
At the top are the nose cone and clay nose weight.


Parts of interest:
Two sheets of poorly die-cut balsa. Both sheets are 3/32" thick. The die cutting was only visible on one side. 
A die cut sheet with the body side panels and rudder deflector.

The decal sheet will probably need a coat of Micro-Sol. 



The OMS Pods are blow molded at the rear end of the nose cone.
The cockpit canopy is molded into the nose cone.






Well, the rubber shock cord and parachute reinforcement disks didn't stand the test of time. Easily replaced.

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