Estes Space Shuttle Columbia Build #1385, Part 12, Fairing Top Gluing

With the fairing back slightly "splayed" out and the glue tabs dried,

The tops get a light even film of glue. The ends are rolled over onto the body tube.

Note the ends didn't end up evenly spaced beside my rudder placement line. Not a real problem.

The rudder is glued on centered between the rolled over cardstock tops, directly over the centered engine hook. The rudder was set down just to the side of the original pencil line. It did end up visually centered.

I did a dry fit of the OMS Pods and found the back slightly raised sitting on the cardstock. The ends of the fairing were trimmed back in a straight line so the bottoms can sit flat and into the root edge of the rudder.

The OMS Pods were glued on, 1/4" back from the front edge of the rudder.

The back of the pods overhang the end of the body tube.