Always glue at least two of the tabs located at each Tick Mark. As you get more comfortable gluing them you can glue up to 4-tabs before aligning the marks. Takes a little more skill, but speeds up construction.

Now the Tick Marks first glued should be strong enough to do this step:

Notice how far the lower cone piece is pushed in? Now is the time to glue all of the tabs before pinching them as in the other steps.

Note:

The little "bumps" on the glue tabs where they meet the lower shell, they like to stop the upper cone from sliding all the way to the lower alignment fold line .

Using you fingers to reach inside and press them to the upper shell , quick before connection sets align the upper cone bottom edge to the fold line at the base of the tabs.

Pinching real hard and hold while the glue tacks each tab, by rotating the assembly to make sure each tab is glued.

Continue until all tabs are glued.

Once these tabs are set/tacked, go the opposite side and repeat process. This helps keep the cones in straight alignment. Lop sided looks like a cartoon, so make sure bottom edge of top cone is aligned to the fold lines, no white cardstock of tabs should be showing!

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