I've already built one Spitfire and I can't say enough about how much fun this kit is to build! I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys fun builds and flying rockets that are more than 3 fins and a nosecone. This is one of the kits that is customized more than most others, and I've really enjoyed seeing all the fun ways people have made them look different. The first one I built I made it completely stock and it turned out really well.
Before I'd finished that first build I decided that I'd someday build another one and customize it so each section would look like a beer can. Or at least, made from parts of a beer can. Ironically I can't stand drinking beer from a can. I love it in bottles or in a glass, but for some reason beer in a can just isn't pleasing.
So some time later I was talking to kcobbva (Kevin) about other kits, and I told him about this one and how much fun it was. I think he ended up buying one to build too. When I told him of my plan for beer cans but that I didn't have the ability to edit the wraps - no software here such as photoshop - he offered to do it for me. So a huge thank you goes out to kcobbva because he did a great job and figured out how to use the templates that fliskits made available and insert the graphics I provided to him. Thanks Kevin! Hopefully it'll turn out looking as great as I hope it will.
I plan on LOTs of pictures in this thread because that's what I like to see in threads that I read.
Having said all that, here is the obligatory shots of the kit package and parts. Next to the bagged kit is the first one of these that I'd built completely stock.
These are the recommended engines. For anyone that hasn't built this and might be using it for a guide... this rocket flies on the short fat engines - 24mm Cs and Ds, but not the long ones like the Es are.
Here's the parts.
This kit has quite a lot of centering rings!!
Before I'd finished that first build I decided that I'd someday build another one and customize it so each section would look like a beer can. Or at least, made from parts of a beer can. Ironically I can't stand drinking beer from a can. I love it in bottles or in a glass, but for some reason beer in a can just isn't pleasing.
So some time later I was talking to kcobbva (Kevin) about other kits, and I told him about this one and how much fun it was. I think he ended up buying one to build too. When I told him of my plan for beer cans but that I didn't have the ability to edit the wraps - no software here such as photoshop - he offered to do it for me. So a huge thank you goes out to kcobbva because he did a great job and figured out how to use the templates that fliskits made available and insert the graphics I provided to him. Thanks Kevin! Hopefully it'll turn out looking as great as I hope it will.
I plan on LOTs of pictures in this thread because that's what I like to see in threads that I read.
Having said all that, here is the obligatory shots of the kit package and parts. Next to the bagged kit is the first one of these that I'd built completely stock.
These are the recommended engines. For anyone that hasn't built this and might be using it for a guide... this rocket flies on the short fat engines - 24mm Cs and Ds, but not the long ones like the Es are.
Here's the parts.
This kit has quite a lot of centering rings!!
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