The glider is a semi-delta with a forward canard wing. It's carried by a 14mm powered booster that attaches via a single "guarded" hook. Except for body and nosecone, all parts are balsa. The wood seemed very hard and heavy. I guess that's a good thing for a beginner glider. If I rebuild or upscale, I might choose a lighter grade of balsa. Most of the laser cut pieces came free of the backer. One piece should have been made from two pieces because of grain direction. A set of pieces that should have been identical are not.
These go on either side of the glider body so the booster has a place to hook on. They should be identical, they're not. The instruction diagram shows them to be the same. I don't know why they're not. Hope it doesn't nake a difference.
The instructions say to glue everything up on a board covered with wax paper. I used a nylon cutting board. Yellow/white glue don't stick to it. Sorry about focus.
Gluing the above mentioned pieces to the fuselage.
These are the parts that make up the hook that goes on the rocket booster. Look at the grain direction on the piece sticking out on the bottom piece. It broke in three pieces trying to get it out of the backing. Should have made it from two pieces, but the part that sticks out is a spacer, not structural.
The two bottom parts form the hook that carries the glider, the curved tips should match up. Instructions were a bit vague, but I figured it out.
This is all three pieces glued together. The part that sticks out is where the launch lug will go.
Everything is now glued to the fuselage. The thing under the right-hand side of the canard is a tool to make sure the fins/wings are square and level.
I glued the nosecone together, tied on the shock cord, and made/installed the other end of the shock cord into the trifold mount inside the tiny, tiny body. (sorry, no pics)
That's it for this evening. Tomorrow, trimming the glider, gluing the hook and launch lug onto the body, and consideration of paint and color.