GlenP
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In a nostalgic trip down memory lane, I decided to commemorate the second model rocket kit I built, from the Centuri Big Shot launch set, the Excalibur. ("Screaming Eagle, Screaming Eagle, Screaming Eagle." What about Excalibur?)
I have started doing some cardstock experiments to make a mini-sized clone, roughly 60% scale, but kind of got diverted from that into building a Goony-style version using a BT-5 as through-tube/upper body, combined with an empty TP roll for the bottom tube. I built the transition and centering rings from
PayloadBay.com templates and the BT5 nose from the Project Paper thread (really cool templates, THANKS!).
I made a fin template using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) based on the full-size fin dimensions.
I wasn't really planning this out, it was sort of a impromptu build, so I don't have a printable template for the rocket, I kind of made it up as I went along. The BT5 tube was rolled around a 0.5" dowel with a layer of wax paper double-sticky taped to it. I used about 2 full wraps of 65# paper 11" long for the through tube. The TP roll was wrapped with the 65# paper.
I printed the decal sheet in solid black on the same color paper and literally cut and pasted them in place. The chrome wrap was from a roll of that tape used for dryer ducts.
The Arthurian legend inspired the name of the extra long beginners rocket, so for the Goonified short version, I was inspired by the somewhat shorter blade from Tolkien's Hobbit, "STING" I am almost surprised that no one has already come up with this before now.
here are a few pictures of the Goony build in process. Not sure what criteria a clone has to qualify as a Goony, but you almost have to retain the signature feature of the Excalibur transition in the caricature, I tried to capture that.
Still working on my 60% scale templates, I built a prototype on white copy paper and just roughed out some color ideas with markers. The Semroc parts (not the actual kit, that should be back in stock in the spring) from eRockets are also shown on the table, I plan to build that original full size version later.
I have started doing some cardstock experiments to make a mini-sized clone, roughly 60% scale, but kind of got diverted from that into building a Goony-style version using a BT-5 as through-tube/upper body, combined with an empty TP roll for the bottom tube. I built the transition and centering rings from
PayloadBay.com templates and the BT5 nose from the Project Paper thread (really cool templates, THANKS!).
I made a fin template using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) based on the full-size fin dimensions.
I wasn't really planning this out, it was sort of a impromptu build, so I don't have a printable template for the rocket, I kind of made it up as I went along. The BT5 tube was rolled around a 0.5" dowel with a layer of wax paper double-sticky taped to it. I used about 2 full wraps of 65# paper 11" long for the through tube. The TP roll was wrapped with the 65# paper.
I printed the decal sheet in solid black on the same color paper and literally cut and pasted them in place. The chrome wrap was from a roll of that tape used for dryer ducts.
The Arthurian legend inspired the name of the extra long beginners rocket, so for the Goonified short version, I was inspired by the somewhat shorter blade from Tolkien's Hobbit, "STING" I am almost surprised that no one has already come up with this before now.
here are a few pictures of the Goony build in process. Not sure what criteria a clone has to qualify as a Goony, but you almost have to retain the signature feature of the Excalibur transition in the caricature, I tried to capture that.
Still working on my 60% scale templates, I built a prototype on white copy paper and just roughed out some color ideas with markers. The Semroc parts (not the actual kit, that should be back in stock in the spring) from eRockets are also shown on the table, I plan to build that original full size version later.
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