11-01-2019, 10:59 PM
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Contest, Sport, it's all good......
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: West of Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 760
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
I see you have some good ones up for auction.
Would you happen to have a K21 Gemini Titan you would be willing to sell ?
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I've seen you asking (drooling, lusting) after that in some other thread.
Nope, don't have that. I did have one in late 1970 (6 to 8 months into the hobby), terribly built, didn't fly it much. I do remember what a PITA those Gemini window/concave areas were to try to carve out and look right....and never really did look quite right on mine.
I totally get it if you'd want one as a collector's item. But since IIRC you wanted one to build to fly, there's so many better options now for a "collect the key parts and do a bit of scratch building" model. Since after all, there was still a level of scratch building involved with that kit.
Heck, if I really wanted to build a Gemini-Titan bad enough, I'd either do a BT-80 version, or 3" tube version, flown on a cluster of two D12's. As I did with a BT-80 sized X-20/Dyna-Soar Titan-II. And use a 3D printed Gemini, screw carving those blasted concave window areas! Nice thing about the the X-20 version was not having to screw with clear fins, which were also a mess on my 1970 model.
http://www.georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale/X20.htm
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