Here’s a tiny rocket that I took an unconscionably long time to build. So I’ll say it up front: I am not a fan of Hobby Lobby. I am a fan of religious freedom, but I am also aware that no rights are absolute. There always are limits. And when the religious views of a…
As for the top plate: Glue it on, or no? If glued, that would have to be after installing the LED rings, which would have to be after painting. And then there would be no way to change out a ring whose batteries have run down. (The rings aren’t built for battery changes. You’d have…
Our club does a night launch every year in August (except we skipped last year), and there’s night launches at NYPower which I’ve gotten to, uh, once I think, and yet I’ve only ever flown two different rockets at them: my Loadstar II with LEDs in the clear payload section, and my Big Blinka. Nothing…
The Liberty Bell 7 capsule went together mostly per the model instructions, but of course I left off the heat shield and retro rockets. Instead I made a shoulder out of a strip of cardstock. If you’ve ever wondered what a Mercury capsule with a service module would have looked like, wonder no more. I…
Next, the fins. Here’s a Rocksim file for an Estes Mercury-Redstone model rocket. If the dimensions therein are correct, it would appear the fins on that model are about 15% wider than scale. My hope was the CP estimated by Rocksim and OpenRocket, scaled to the body diameter, would be roughly correct if I used…
The July launch theme for our club isn’t just Apollo 11 or Saturn V but US Manned [sic] Space Flight, so I decided to put together something that’s been in my build pile for quite some time. Delta 7 Studios, evidently the nom de commerce of one D. H. T. Shippey, has been in business…
I claimed I would not fly the Saturn V again after its unstable flight in May, but maybe I will, with some modification. I built it pretty much according to the instructions, the biggest change (and potentially quite significant, I guess) being substitution of epoxy putty for funky glue putty in the engines. And perhaps…
No build thread here, just the finished product. I won this kit in a club raffle. Probably not one I ever would have bought, but I had no objection to building it once I had it. Other than rail buttons it’s pretty much stock.
So that took a while. I bought the Semroc 18mm V-2 kit in August 2013. Bought decals for the White Sands No. 3 from Excelsior in September 2013. I started building in January 2014. I did a bad job of it and abandoned the build in July 2014. I learned in February 2016 that Semroc…
I guess I’m overdue for an update on this rocket. I’ve been gluing on a piece here, a piece there, over the past few weeks. It’s looking like this now. Today I cut the fins out. Still need shaping.
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