U.S.S. Atlantis - Step 16 (part 2 of 2), Attaching dowel details to the warp drive tubes

Now that we have our warp drive tubes attached we can return to step 16 and finish attaching the dowel detail pieces that we postponed. The reason we didn't want to attach them prior to attaching the warp drive tubes is seen in the above picture. Since the dowel piece lays right up against the support pylon, it's now a very easy attachment.

I also postponed, until now, attaching the the dowel piece that sits on the fin simply because, the less things that were in the way when attaching the warp tubes, the better. Here we finally have our fin dowel attached. I chose to make the dowel the length shown in the instructions, though many people chose to make it slightly longer so that the rocket will stand up on the warp tubes and the fin dowel. Mine will be going on a custom stand that I will make as part of this blog, so I kept the fin dowel "stock". Next up, we go back and begin step 14 - Assembling the antenna dish.