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Hopefully the nose cone (in particular, depicting the lidome and IR seeker) won't present too many problems.
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Well, all my other plans and schemes have worked out reasonably well so far, so I'm hopeful. We shall see! |
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I've also heard that many of the catalog and trade show display models are not built with balsawood fins, but substitute plexiglass instead. Much easier to get a good finish on THAT!
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Interesting to ponder how to build a model where looks are all that matters, and not caring at all about strength or weight...
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When I visited the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre in England for a couple of weeks in August of 2010, Stuart Lodge, a long-time British competition spacemodeler and contest judge, came to visit me there one day. He brought along a packing case full of models that he has flown in contests all over the world (they appear in several of his books). They include a scale Vertikal vehicle (whose spherical nose/separable instrument capsule [on the actual vehicle] is depicted by a glass sphere bottle [for perfume or cologne, if memory serves]) and an MMI Aerobee-Hi, whose fins appear to be made of waferglass or plexiglass (they're very light, thin, and stiff, yet very smoothly-finished).
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Status update:
1) I decided that the paint job was No Good: in addition to poor quality, the color was really too dark. And so now I am in the middle of the long and tedious process of sanding down the whole thing in preparation of a new topcoat a better, lighter grey color. All the nooks and crannies make the sanding a delicate process. Yesterday I broke off one of the control fins when I was holding the rocket in a careless position. Lesson learned. 2) I am working on the nose cone, also a somewhat long and drawn out project. I'll post more when I have something to show. |
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Asem Hobby (a Korean hobby firm, if memory serves) sells narrow, "pie slice-shaped" sanding devices for sanding in hard-to-reach nooks and crannies.
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Add those to an astonishingly long list of specialized sanding tools I was informed of over on TRF.
For now I'm trying to just do it carefully with sandpaper and the best tools I have, my fingers. The biggest pitfall is trying to sand large areas quickly with large strokes; that's when accidents (or sand-throughs) happen. I just need to keep going *slowly* and not getting careless. |
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The electric toothbrush one sounded interesting... I've sanded tight spots by folding sanding film over a piece of cardboard.
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