Wanted: The uglies Part 2.

[UPscaler]

Okay people, lets try this again, last time I tried this I came out of it with a really nice rocket that wasn't ugly at all. Please don't offer me nice rockets, or I may be so inclined to buy them :eyeroll:

I am looking for rockets that you have wrecked and don't have the patience to repair. I would like to work on my building skills, and I figure, building a kit is one thing, but it has to be more difficult to actually repair a rocket.

Maybe this happened, I'll take it!

Or maybe this happened. I'll take that too! Both of those are my rockets and have been repaired (and in the crayon's case destroyed again)

I would like the rocket to be somewhat there. Broken fins, zippers, crumpled body tubes, boosters wrecked from CATOs, tangled chutes and it hit hard, this are the things I want. I don't want anything that looks like lawn mulch. :wink:


Let me know! Thanks everyone!

Braden

 

[MarkII]

I don't remember if I posted this in the earlier thread.

It is my shredded FlisKits Nebula. It already had already made two or three successful flights on previous outings, but this time I think I stuffed too much wadding in it before packing in the streamer. It got hung up somehow and the ejection charge couldn't push it out. The charge blew apart the cardstock airframe instead. That was $0.025 down the drain.

 

[UPscaler]

I don't remember if I posted this in the earlier thread.

It is my shredded FlisKits Nebula. It already had already made two or three successful flights on previous outings, but this time I think I stuffed too much wadding in it before packing in the streamer. It got hung up somehow and the ejection charge couldn't push it out. The charge blew apart the cardstock airframe instead. That was $0.025 down the drain.

WOW, that's a little beyond my realm of repair. The reason the crayon is there is because the fin can was salvageable.

BTW, for those of you interested, this has nothing to do with the "frankenrocket" contest, this is simply for my own benefit. I will not pay much for wrecked rockets, but I can't just ask you to donate them to me. I will pay some money, and cover the shipping cost. The bigger the better :wink:

Braden

 

[El Cheapo]

This Is a great way to Improve building skills. Even better when you re-gift back to the person who gave you the jumbled mess looking like a totally new masterpiece different than its original form.

 

[mannyskid]

I have a LOC 4 that I heavily modified a while ago, gave it a 54mm mount but the chute got tangled on the way down and cracked one fin, delaminated another and the other is fine. It's built like a brick. It has room for a simple altimeter bay in the nose, and you can just barely fit a CTI 6GXL case which was my plan but it would take a disgusting amount of work to fix it so I put it in the dead rocket corner. You can have it but it won't be free as I put a lot of Fiberglass and bondo into it. PM me if you're interested.

Manny

 

[mannyskid]

:EDIT: Here is a flight picture and after picture

Manny

 

[UPscaler]

PM sent

 

[mannyskid]

PM sent

 

[SMR]

Wow, Braden, I didn't see your previous attempt at this, or I would have sent you a pile from last summer. (upscale Death Star, etc...). So, I'll put a box in the corner of the basement for you, of current / future projects gone bad. Of course, MY goal would be to keep YOUR box empty. We'll see how I do. Cheers, Sather

 

[UPscaler]

Wow, Braden, I didn't see your previous attempt at this, or I would have sent you a pile from last summer. (upscale Death Star, etc...). So, I'll put a box in the corner of the basement for you, of current / future projects gone bad. Of course, MY goal would be to keep YOUR box empty. We'll see how I do. Cheers, Sather

Sounds good to me, sorta, I guess I'd have to hope for the demise of your rockets for them to be sent to me.

no one likes to see civilian casualties :wink:


Braden