1:144 External Tank / SRB’s Assembly

You need: White glue, a craft knife, ruler, tweezers, a cutting mat, and very,
very important……..PATIENCE.
For beginners is best to learn basic techniques for papermodeling. You can
check in the Internet.

The following pages show a sequence of photos as a guide to build this

model.
Glue the “reinforcers” parts on the back of this page.

These parts need to be at a same

distance one another and leaving a
small clearance at the top and
bottom of the page, about half an
inch (15 mm or so)

Give shape to the page, make a tube and insert circles “C” on both ends
leaving a clearance of about half an inch, too.
 Glue part B1 at the bottom of ET.

Glue the “intertank” part starting at the right side of the page. Match it with
this line.

This is how the ET bottom looks at this point. Notice the silver detail
protruding from the rest. Do not put glue yet on that part.
Start building the Ojive or the upper portion of the External Tank.
The rings go one on top of the other, carefully matching one another.

Start from the base ring.

IMPORTANT: All rings are to be

aligned with their lines of
connection.

Match the Ojive line with this part.

 Now build the bottom of the ET.
Start with this ring. Notice that B1
teeth will not be covered by first
ring.

The circles with the dots are a detail

from mission STS-1.
Not seen on current ET’s.

Finally put the last part aligned with

the center of the whole tube.

Now start the attachment structure.

Has one part that is glued on the
back of the other one.
 The yellow triangle is optional to be
cut off with a blade.

At this point, you can add the tip of the tank and the “fuel line” part.
 The LO2 line is the long white tube
crossing the whole ET. To match the
width at this scale, you can use 3
swabs, remove the cotton and clean
the sticks. Measure with the “paper
part” and glue them on it.

Glue the attachment structure. Align it.

Put the 2 tubes under the crossbeam. The one with the black stripe goes to
the left and the other tube goes on the right.

Now, the bipod structure.

Finally, put the LO2 cover.

Start with the Solid Rocket
Boosters. The building process is
very straightforward.
These “reinforcers” are glued the
same way as the ones from the ET.

Glue the “connector”part inside

the SRB top end.

See the Reference page of my site to

see how these dots are aligned.
 Glue cylinders 1 and 2 on top of the
crossbeam to hold the Space Shuttle.

The SRB’s are glued to the tank at the indicated places.

Enjoy building the Stack configuration!

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