Saturn V - $50?


I'm soooo there.

It is definitely a very encouraging and exciting list to review!

The list has changed since I looked at it yesterday, though (and not just the background color).

Added:
- Saturn V
- ThunderChief
- ThunderStrike

Gone from the list:
- Competitor
- Feather
- Magnum Hornet
- Swift B/G
- Theta 37
- Tornado Two
- XK-23
- and probably others, too

But it's OK and all good. I realize that it is pretty risky to go out on a limb, as Carl has done, and list planned new kits that might be a long way down the road, or that are way out on the horizon or even over it, or that might end up never happening at all. I view the items marked as "Planned" as being very tentative. Sure, I would like to see them produced, but I realize that he has a business to run, and so, if Carl has to drop any of them from the Planned list, it will be OK. I view the items in the "Planned" category as indicators of the direction that Semroc wants to go, but not as firm promises, because in the business world, a lot of things can happen. I feel that this subset of items constitutes a snapshot of what may be in the design and development stages today, but the picture can change from week to week.

Marking a kit as "Coming Soon," OTOH, indicates that there is a bit firmer of a plan to produce the item, but I see even those kits as being tentative, at least for now.

With all of that being said, I am still very excited by what I see on this list. And I am also mindful of the fact that there may very well be a number of other kits, such as new designs, that are in development but are not listed on that page. Semroc definitely looks like a company that is not sitting still and they appear to be optimistic about the future. Semroc is starting to close in on the record for having the largest selection of kits offered at any one time by any one company in the whole history of our hobby.* It's going to be a great year!

* (I'm pretty sure that the Damon-era Estes Industries of the 1970's holds the current record. They had a total of something like 93 kits in one of their mid-'70's catalogs - 1975, I think. Those were 93 or so unique rocket designs, after subtracting the duplicates.)

Mark \\.

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SAM # 0011

That "Omega" he has been working on that takes the "Boostervision" camera is still not on the list either new or coming.

But I really like seeing the Sat V.

The list is being modified, so it is changing more than usual. I just made it more "automatic" to reflect changes made in the database without changing all the pages.

There are many coming and a few that, unfortunately, will have to go.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

Carl, that list of yours is insane!

No! Say it ain't so! At least let me buy one of each of those kits before you drop them! Not for hoarding purposes, but simply because I really like your kits, and I want to get every single one.

Mark \\.

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SAM # 0011

I sure hope the Saturn V actually makes it as a kit. There is an old estes kit I built as a kid up in my parents' attic. I would love to build another with my improved modeling skills. That Tau Zero is really neat looking as well.

Carl give us a heads up what might be going so we can stock up.

Thanks! I, uh (cough, cough) know the guy who designed it, and I'll pass the word along to him:

http://www.oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=834


What?!? You're only going to buy *one* Tau Zero? (lower lip trembling in mock tearfulness)


Cheers,

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Jay Goemmer
"Centuri Guy"/"Tau Zero"
YORF Member 28
Semroc SAM #0029
NAR 86131


"I think about organizing things all the time. Never seems to happen. I find something that piques my interest and I'm off on a quest. Or a Centuri. "

--Bill Eichelberger, 02/22/2022


“Centuri fret buzz in an updated form.”
Bill “Wallyum” Eichelberger re: Estes Flutter-By
03 Sept 2014

Don't worry, Jay, I'll make up the difference, with the "fleet" of them I'll be ordering.

(in best "overbearing Mother" voice) "If I can ever BUY one, that is, you scalliwag!"

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Dean Fox
NAR #53946SR

---- "Wherever you go, there you are"