For a "Beginner" kit, this one has a lot of interesting features. Lots of detail and enough assembly for a beginn...

The hatch stickers are clear, fingerprints will show if you touch the back sticky side. Hold and position the stickers with the tip of...

GOTCHA: The instruction shows but doesn't say it - You've got to place the launch lug strip somewhere between two fins . The i...

The instructions show tube type plastic cement. I used brush-on liquid cement. The fin can halves were pressed together dry. The inte...

Continued from the last post: Here's the top of an engine sitting in the motor mount/fin can. Notice how it is centered, just insi...

The shock cord is already installed! This is a different attachment - the low end goes through a slit in the body tube, then folded up ...

Here's probably the most interesting of the "Beginner" rockets, the new Estes Mars Ascent Vehicle or MAV. It has a ...