Micromeister
6th May 2010, 01:28 PM
I've overlooked this Model for a long time. I agree with many it just never excited me.
I decided it was time to give it a whirl as a T3 size model. What made it even easier was Flis kits transition and nosecones made the thing all but automatic LOL!!! 1/32" Basswood was chosen for the fins. 30" - 90lb kevlar shockline, 1/2" Green teflon tape streamer and T2+ motor tube with flis T2+/T3 centering rings. the model almost put itself together with a little yellow glue (Elemer's Carpenters glue) and a bit of epoxy on the fillets and Plasticstruct 1/16" styrene launch lugs. The LL is drilled out to .052" before cutting.
As with the Wolverine, the build went so quickly I just plain forgot to take pics along the way, sorry...no wait it's all JIM'S fault...Darn way To good parts just make everything so easy and almost automatic.LOL!!!
Again no fillers were used just the usual 3 coat cheapy wal-mart grey primer before sanding.
Lower booster portion painted Midnight Black/copper flake Metallic with Silver Metal flake fins. Upper transiton/nc section Gloss white old formula Krylon.
two tone Decals and graduated white to blue name strip are downscaled redrawn in coreldraw, printed on my Alps. but again I'm having what may be a head problem that is throwing a few broken lines in the output that may not be correctable on this machine. If not I'm just gonna have to live with them. We'll see this evening when I fire it back up and do some tests?
Till than we're at the point of needing to apply decals with this build.
I decided it was time to give it a whirl as a T3 size model. What made it even easier was Flis kits transition and nosecones made the thing all but automatic LOL!!! 1/32" Basswood was chosen for the fins. 30" - 90lb kevlar shockline, 1/2" Green teflon tape streamer and T2+ motor tube with flis T2+/T3 centering rings. the model almost put itself together with a little yellow glue (Elemer's Carpenters glue) and a bit of epoxy on the fillets and Plasticstruct 1/16" styrene launch lugs. The LL is drilled out to .052" before cutting.
As with the Wolverine, the build went so quickly I just plain forgot to take pics along the way, sorry...no wait it's all JIM'S fault...Darn way To good parts just make everything so easy and almost automatic.LOL!!!
Again no fillers were used just the usual 3 coat cheapy wal-mart grey primer before sanding.
Lower booster portion painted Midnight Black/copper flake Metallic with Silver Metal flake fins. Upper transiton/nc section Gloss white old formula Krylon.
two tone Decals and graduated white to blue name strip are downscaled redrawn in coreldraw, printed on my Alps. but again I'm having what may be a head problem that is throwing a few broken lines in the output that may not be correctable on this machine. If not I'm just gonna have to live with them. We'll see this evening when I fire it back up and do some tests?
Till than we're at the point of needing to apply decals with this build.