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I heard that the Little Joes were "on the boat", meaning that they are in a container on a ship coming from China.
The waiting is the hardest part (cue music). Chas
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I got my 2018 Estes catalog today and was please that the MR Little Joe was in it. The description states balsa fins. Does that mean we have to hand-scrape the full bevels into the fins? If that’s the case, I’ll probably build them up from super-thin plywood over a basswood armature.
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Ellis Langford explained at NARAM 60 that the fins are laser-cut balsa frame pieces with laser-cut cardstock overlay. Kind regards, Jeff Jenkins aka: Faithwalker NAR #46879 SR |
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Translation: Cardstock with balsa skeleton. Yuck. |
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Is there a link to it at Estes website? I could not find it .
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Here is a photo of the prototype in the Estes conference room.
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See pages 8 and 9 of Estes 2018 catalog. https://www.estesrockets.com/media/...WEB_VERSION.pdf Kind regards, Jeff Jenkins aka: Faithwalker NAR #46879 SR |
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nice photo! let's see, - Apollo LJII 1/45 back in production -- check - LJ in production -- check - Mercury Atlas?? be still my heart!!! |
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Yes, the interesting thing about this is that Ellis told us on the tour that anything we saw in the conference room would be in the next (2019) catalog. When I mentioned the Atlas to JumpJet and Angela the Product Manager in the Hospitality tent, they both went, "news to us!"
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I'd like to see Estes offer both the 1/70 and 1/100 Saturn 1B again too.
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