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Old 05-12-2020, 08:00 PM
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If someone (Taras? Jim [Flis]? Randy [Boadway]? Raygun?) would kit the Malemute, Nike-Malemute, Terrier-Malemute, and/or Terrier-Improved Malemute (perhaps in multiple-version, builder-customizable kits)--preferably in multiple scales, to cater to 13/18 mm, 24 mm, and 29/38 mm flyers--I think they would sell well, and:

A Terrier-Malemute/Improved Malemute kit (with both the ogive and conical noses) would be an easy "custom-kit," which could also be built to depict a third variant, a single-stage Malemute sounding rocket test round. People like model rockets--scale and otherwise--with "cylinder-varying" features (transition sections) such as boat-tails (which also improve [lessen] the models' drag) and interstage sections, because they're aesthetically interesting and attractive; in addition:

Such kits need not be kits in the traditional sense. In the model aviation world, "short kits" (a bag or box containing the main/kit-specific unique parts, decals, and instructions, with the "generic" parts/materials [such as the tissue covering, standard-size balsa fuselage former strips, etc.] available separately) have long been popular, partly because they are significantly cheaper than full kits. For school/club/group projects, short kits are also popular because they lend themselves to easy bulk packaging. Also:

A model rocket short kit, such as a multi-version "Malemute family" one, could come with balsa, basswood, or--*even better*--3D printed plastic nose cones, boat-tail and interstage transitions, fins, and (for the Nike and/or Terrier boosters) 3D printed fins and fin cans, as well as the decals. The body tubes, parachute(s), and/or streamer(s) (depending on the kit scale; first stages could be parachute- or streamer-recovered, using Evan "Buzz" Nau's simple but reliable gap-staged booster recovery method [please see the article scan below]) could be sold separately--so could (optionally) the motor mounts. OR:

The body tubes and motor mounts could be included in the short kit, perhaps cut to the standard bulk tube lengths, which the builder could cut to the scale lengths. The principle behind the short kit (which makes them easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to produce, and makes them cheaper for the builder to buy)--whether of a model airplane or a model rocket--is that people who are even moderately active in either hobby know where to obtain the other common components, and/or they ^already^ have "junk box stashes" of the common parts (in our case, motor mount tubes, parachutes, streamers, and so forth). The packaging of short kits is also simpler (and is thus easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to produce, which in turn benefits the buyer). Below is Evan Nau's gap-staged booster recovery article:
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