Here it is July 22 and I still haven’t finished any new rockets, other than the giveaways. So I loaded up some oldies for today’s launch. Other than the wind gusts up to about a quarter of a mile per hour, it was pretty good weather. Overcast, and a few occasional drops fell but no…
I was on my own Sunday, Kenny deciding to stay back at the hotel. Having flown all black powder Saturday, I decided to lead off Sunday with some APCP purchased from AMW the day before. The Excel went up on a CTI H152 Blue Streak with the delay drilled to 10 seconds. 8 seconds might…
Today’s club launch had its ups and good parts and bad parts. I showed up with seven rockets, planning up to nine flights but probably less. Not everything happened as planned. We got under way late, due to not being on time. Weather started out overcast (though it’d been almost cloudless when I left home… then again,…
I used gloss paint, of course, because you don’t want to try to put decals on flat paint, but I felt a flat finish would be more suitable for a (faux) military rocket like this. So after putting on the decals I hit it with Testors Dullcote. I nearly didn’t, because after buying the Dullcote…
I haven’t put up a new post in this series since October but you’ve gotten glimpses of color painting. I finished that up on the weekend. I’d painted both ends of the scoop fin red before assembly, even though the instructions don’t show the rear end as red. They show… well, I’m not sure what.…
Oh, excellent… not only was today a holiday but it was about perfect painting weather. I shot gloss white Rusto 2X on the D Region Tomahawk (and I think it worked fine, I’ll let you know if it passes the touch test), gloss winter grey on the Sea Sting, and filler primer on the Honest Goon,…
Genuinely spring-like weather has finally come to central New York — temporarily! — and today it was a weekend, above 60°F, under 50% RH, and only a little bit breezy. And yesterday I bought four cans of filler primer. I have a bunch of rockets to paint, but I didn’t rush into blasting all of…
Temperature today about 60°F; humidity under 50%; very light breeze. I’ll paint in weather like that. Not the Sea Sting, because I put the first primer coat on a few days ago, and I’m basically out of primer for the second coat. Home Depot’s just down the road, but I figure there’s little chance I’ll…
Oh look, fillets. Having neglected to put the launch lug on when I should have, I had to resort to laparoscopic techniques. I slipped the lug on a piece of 1/8″ rod. One piece of tape was added to keep the lug from sliding forward while the other was used to mark how far in…
The scoop in mid glue treatment: I filled the spirals with thinned CWF and sanded down.Amid some further follies regarding alignment I decided the strake fin had been too wonkily cut and sanded to be permitted to live, so I made a new one. Glued that on, and the dowel, and the rudder fin. Things…
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