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A most respectable idea!
I would have to replace the decals for the upper half of the BT which are white in this scheme, but I may have a solution for that and this would give me a chance to try it out. As for pictures, here's one of the current rocket after landing. It is the only pic I have of my BB at the time.
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Nice Mark B! I have a Big Bertha still "in-the-bag" awaiting its' turn to be built. I also have a Baby Bertha "in-the-bag" that I will use to convert to a clone of the Astron Ranger 3 engine cluster classic. Your build thread will certainly inspire me.......
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NARAM 56 Bertha's
The first four models on the left from NARAM 56 belong to me and my family.
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The Estes plan of the month in Picture 1 is interesting because the recommended engines are B-4-2s and B-6-4s. I thought the designations for those engines in 1964 were B-.8-2 and B-.8-4. Comments? |
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Huh, hadn't noticed that. That page is from Model Rocket News Vol. 3 No. 2 as posted at JimZ. Could it be a reissue? JimZ also has "The Best from Volumes 1 and 2" which clearly is a reissue, with the notice "The rocket plans and technical report in this booklet are the current revised versions; all other articles are reprinted as they originally appeared" — but the rocket plans contain English designations. However maybe Vol. 3 was reissued after the designation change, and with the plans correspondingly updated. I notice JimZ has Vol. 3 No. 1 with English designations throughout, except in the one plan where metric designation is used. At oldrocketplans they have Vol. 3 Nose. 3 and 4, with English throughout.
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The Model Rocket News-es up to 1969 were collected in a three-volume set. I managed to get one of these around 1975. Some of the "scans" I've seen come from this set, which had revisions
Others are of the original newsletters. I remember being frustrated, reading those books forty years ago, that I couldn't build many of the models because the BT-40 and associated parts weren't available.
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No brainer: #3. It involves ethyl alcohol.
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Great thread!
In late 2012 I did this "Battle Bertha" for a request. All of the decorations are colored Monokote adhesive film.
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...but my personal favorite BB is, and probably always will be, the Ranger-ish scheme. This is the last one I did. The yellow and white parts are paint. The black stripes are Monokote adhesive film. "The Vixen" painted the black fin by hand.
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This is a great thread. Thanks MarkB for including my BB rocket which is a BB and a Ranger top combined renamed Large Marge. The JJ rocket pic with the "Singer" auto decal, who built that one?
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