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Yes. I'm assuming you will still be using it to show what your Retro kits will look like. It would be a good idea for you note that these are original sized clones instead of your much larger kits. I'd be willing to build and photograph your kits with a better background than that pic this summer. They'd make a good donation for our annual school rocket day display after the photo shoot.
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Last edited by Jerry Irvine : 03-14-2017 at 09:27 AM. |
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This Retro Week thread inspired me to upscale my oldest rocket. It's an Estes Saros I built in 1976. The nose cone is the first piece, since The original part is a unique plastic part. Nothing as challenging as something like an Interceptor, but it is kind of a melding of a transition and an ogive cone. The original is BT-20 sized. This turned one is sized for a BT-55. In retrospect, making this BT-50 sized would have allowed for using a BT-60 for the main body tube.
For the first time, I switched from using a 3 or 4 jaw chuck, to using a collet chuck. It does not crush the dowel, so you can remove it from the lathe, re-chuck it, and have perfect alignment. I do this to get the shoulder "just right". Then I slip a section of body tube over the shoulder, and do my final sanding. I used a standard 3/4" dowel, held by a 3/4" collet. The lower tube is going to have to be something like an ST-18, if I want to scale it uniformly, a BT-60 is a little small. But, if I used the BT-60, I could use a plastic tailcone I have. I think I'm going to go ST-18 if I can find it. I need to turn the transition anyway because the 55-60 balsa adapter I have is to short, it needs to be about twice as long as the Estes part I have. UPDATE: Found it. The Semroc ST-18 tube is available from eRockets. Potential disaster avoided. Now I need to add tail cone to list of parts to turn.
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Wow Lee, this will be spectacular ! It is great to see my projects has helped inspire.
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You are welcome! And thanks. I've only got about 5 projects going on, and 125 kits in storage, so I needed something else to work on!
Will be interested in your progress. Certainly you'll move faster than me -- so much custom stuff to do on the Saros upscale.
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I'll have to look tonight. The Orion is with my son in Texas so I have no way to shoot it again.
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Finished this one up this week, not a clone or retro kit but a Estes favorite of mine for years.
Hosted on Fotki Last edited by Dewalt : 07-02-2017 at 04:13 PM. |
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I put the decals on a Phred-era Goony that I started back 2004ish. The decals had yellowed because some moron had left them partially in the sun since then. It still turned out pretty nicely. After that I got my MPC Aquarius, quite possibly the ugliest rocket ever designed, ready for flight in the event that I get a flight window tomorrow. Gonna be a short flight with that pork chop tied around it.
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Picture, pretty please? |
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