AcroRay
10-22-2010, 10:17 PM
Last weekend I purchased a couple of Custom Rockets' TRISTAR kits, and built one for my oldest daughter - which went unpainted into rocket-eating trees the next day. (RIP) While building it, I noticed a couple of things. One was that each of the two kits I got were different editions, with slight differences in instructions, parts and decals. The decal sets in particular used different blue inks, and had black areas in different portions of the design. Image attached.
I also noticed that the design had a couple of tiny unused fins, which made me thing the Tristar might have been a Jayhawk target drone scale-like kit at some point in its development. So I wrote to Custom and asked if that was indeed the case.
Custom replied that it wasn't ever intended to be a Jayhawk. They also noted that the kit is now out of production, and that we should keep our eye out at their website next month for an update featuring new kits.
Tristar is a fetching, simple kit that gets some great altitude. It was near the top of my budget list, so I'm glad I grabbed a couple. Hopefully when the leaves fall from the trees near the launch site, I can find my daughter's white, as-yet-undecorated Tristar.
I also noticed that the design had a couple of tiny unused fins, which made me thing the Tristar might have been a Jayhawk target drone scale-like kit at some point in its development. So I wrote to Custom and asked if that was indeed the case.
Custom replied that it wasn't ever intended to be a Jayhawk. They also noted that the kit is now out of production, and that we should keep our eye out at their website next month for an update featuring new kits.
Tristar is a fetching, simple kit that gets some great altitude. It was near the top of my budget list, so I'm glad I grabbed a couple. Hopefully when the leaves fall from the trees near the launch site, I can find my daughter's white, as-yet-undecorated Tristar.