01-06-2019, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by MarkB.
Off-Topic Comrades:
Done! (Well, mostly)
Attached are the images. The first is the the rocket all in primer. I went with Duplicolor Black Primer on the tube and nose with a minimal amount of overspray on the fins focusing on the repaired area. My experience is red plastic is extremely hard to paint over without getting bleed-thru. This is critical for the white nose but I decided a little red bleeding through the copper on the fin unit wasn't necessarily bad. The primer helped seal up the water-damaged body tube pretty well.
No outdoor picture because it's raining on-and-off and the lighting is bad but the second picture is the final. Colors are Rustoleum spray Copper, Camo Deep Forest Green and Flat White in the alternate Nike-Smoke scheme. The scheme works well for this model with its pronounced fin can. The nose was tricky to mask but it worked out.
The parachute needs a little more work, but that'a all the rocket needs to be ready for launch. The kids want to go launch so maybe by the end of the month.
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That copper paint, over the red plastic, has a nice--and not unrealistic--crimson tinge to it, like that of some 1/2" copper tubing that I've seen. It might be due to some "within spec" impurity in the copper, but some of the tubing has a reddish coloration. The overall paint scheme reminds me of a Nike-Nike-Smoke (launched from Punta Lobos, Peru) that Dr. Bob Kreutz scratch-built a scale model of a few years ago; that round had three large, Nike-Ajax booster fins on each stage's Nike rocket motor.
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