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Rocketry Product: Estes - LEO Space Train (7285)
New Estes Kits & Release Dates (2019-10-13)
On Facebook, Jesse Ulibarra posted pictures from the Estes booth at the Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo - On the upper left - The Low Boom SST, to be released February 2020 On the right - the LEO ... [Read More]
Estes New Kit Poster (2019-10-17)From TRF, CoModelBuilder showed a poster featuring the upcoming Estes kits: The Orange Bullet is small with tumble/featherweight recovery. Enlarge the picture and you can see the weights on ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 4, Strips & Small Actuators (2020-02-12)Square up and smooth the hardwood strips, Parts O. The pre-production kit I received had balsa strips. The kits now have basswood strips. 1. Round the sides of the strips. 2. Taper the ends ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 6, Gluing Up The Wings (2020-02-14)The three wing pieces were glued together after initial filling. (The pictures 1 & 2 shows a test fit before the CWF was applied.) Do a test fit of the "I" and "J" pieces to check the width when ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 7, Upper Engine (2020-02-15)The new design nose cone was pretty clean, the seams didn't require any filling, just sanding until smooth. The right side shows the engine mount in the BT-60 main tube. The end got a shot of ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 8, Small Top Engine Supports & Nose Cone Paint (2020-02-16)From the earlier post: The two Part "R" supports were glued together. The outside visible sides got a bead of wood glue to round and hide the joint. The glue bead was sanded after it dried. In the ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 9, Masking The Wings (2020-02-18)I can get pretty good results using Scotch tape for masking. But - your surfaces have to be smooth, fillets and balsa grain filled to get a clean separations using any masking tape. The ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 10, Masking Black Wing Leading Edges (2020-02-19)To match the face card and catalog pictures, this will be an involved mask. The underside is all black. The wing was already painted gloss white. The lug was painted gloss black. No real reason for ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 11, Details & Decals (2020-02-20)The actuators (Parts P) were glued onto the wings and stabilizer sides. Paint was carefully scraped away for gluing. The locations are laser cut into the wings. I'm jumping ahead here - The small ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 12, Another Mask & Gluing It Together (2020-02-21)The black on the underside is extended back, down the tube from the lines already masked on the nose cone. This was my first build, the second and third builds had the black extended all the way ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285, Finished (2020-02-23)Lots of pictures of this one! A lot of details to cover. The tough part of this kit are forming and filling the small actuators. To match the face card color scheme, I do recommend painting the ... [Read More]
Estes Leo Space Train #7285 Build, Part 13, Assembly & Scraping (2020-02-22)The big nozzle was glued on the motor tube using Beacon Fabri-Tac. The screw on retainer hub followed. The auxiliary small rocket "runners" were set in place and the line marked with pencil. The ... [Read More]
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