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Old 06-16-2012, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Swillie
Just wondering, once you glue the main upper body tube over the engine cluster, you are instructed to stuff glue soaked tissue paper into the gaps around the engine tubes so the ejection charge can't leak through there. I keep thinking maybe there is a better way to accomplish this such as filling the spaces with balsa or basswood triangle pieces...


I used balsa fillers on mine, but coated the exposed wood with white glue to seal them in. You could also cut some matteboard fillers for the job. Tissue-and-glue was the "old way", and it worked, but it's not the only way.
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