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This is exciting news!! Been waiting for Estes to produce this.
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Not sure if a 29mm mount will fit between the 6 nozzles. Maybe you should buy a cool dozen kits to test. John Boren |
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We all promise to buy lots of them. So make sure the production runs are huge. Just sayin!
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I just wanted to bump this thread because it deserves it!!!
Believe it or not, I did some sanding last night on some rockets and several sets of fins, NC's and BT's in order to make room on the bench for the LJII. I've got several kits in the prep stage, and a few that I have to sand and prep before assembly that I need to get done and get out of the way. I won't tell you how long they've been sitting there, but I'll admit I couldn't mark when I started them on this year's calendar.
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I mentioned that the old 1/45 Little Joe II was a collectible on Twitter. An old college friend said that there was one -- in the box, complete except for instructions -- in the science museum where he worked!
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This is great!
I'll buy a dozen, save them for ten years, then sell them and retire.
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The problem with that is that all of us that care anything about them will be senile or dead so they will be all but worthless.
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Wow, that is such a depressing thought. Why wait I ask myself? I'm contemplating heading to the shop to slit my wrists, assuming I have a fresh #11 blade for the Xacto knife ...
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I’ve built a total of 6 of these models now in the past week for test flying and I just wanted to show one of the design features I incorporated into the model. One of the first steps in building this model is applying the vacuum formed wrap around the body tube. When it comes time to glue on the fins simply apply glue to the inside of the fins and place it over the raised areas on the wrap. All four fins will be perfectly aligned. If you look closely you can see the fins are two piece right down the center since for this photo I didn’t glue the halves together.
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Great stuff, John!
I officially asked my family to put the model on my Christmas list.
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