Building the Apogee Saturn V requires all these specialized techniques that I’ve not used before. Letting CyA wick to seal the edges of the thin plastic wraps, feathering epoxy clay to smooth over joints that don’t meet quite perfectly, and who-knows what else in the offing.

I had to come up with one of my own (the two above are in the instructional videos that come with the kit): drizzle a little canopy cement and let it wick—sometimes help it wick—under an edge of a plastic wrap. I used this technique to seal the edges of the scars from the ullage rockets that I removed in order to model Apollo 15 more closely.

The frustrating part is that just about when I get comfortable and competent with one of these techniques, I’m done using it on the rocket!