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Old 05-26-2019, 04:38 PM
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I decided to try my hand at making a 3D part and created a fin can for it. I didn't do a lot of detail, did about what I would have done in balsa. And it certainly isn't scale, but it turned out pretty good I think. The fin can weighs 15 grams and the capsule weighs 13 grams.
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