FANTASY SCALE - (Battlestar Galactica) Colonial Viper Gallery

[JAL3]

Welcome to the FANTASY SCALE - (Battlestar Galactica) Colonial Viper Gallery on TRF.

This gallery showcases the Colonial Viper from the Battlestar Galactica Movie and TV series and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:


Estes: Colonial Viper: #1310
MoreRockets.Com: Viper: #1310



as well as any upscales, downscales, clones, kitbashes or other derivative works. Even Goonies qualify!

[JAL3]

Estes Colonial Viper (#1310) Basic Information.

Estes Industries

MODEL NAME: Colonial Viper Also known as: Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper

NUMBER: #1310

Introduced: 1979
Final Year: 1979
Designer:

Type: Fantasy Scale
Motor Mount: 1x18mm
Recovery: Parachute
Stages: 1
Length: 11.76"
Diameter: 0.976"
Span: 4.635"
Weight: 2.01 oz

Mfg. Description: Outstanding sport-scale model of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's primary attack craft. Backbone of colonial defense, the Colonial Viper is small, fast and dead on target when encountering the treacherous Cylon raiders. This sensational kit is easy to assemble with die-cut fins, plastic nose cone, quick release engine mount and realistic BATTLESTAR GALACTICA decals. Cam attain altitudes over 800 feet with Estes "C" type rocket engines. The Colonial Viper deploys a 12" recovery parachute for a safe flight and gentle recovery time after time. (Estes 1979 Catalog)

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Estes 1979 Catalog

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See Also: LINKS
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If you have any additional information on this rocket and/or catalog photos please let us know.

[JAL3]

MoreRockets.Com Viper (#1310) Basic Information.

MoreRockets.Com

MODEL NAME: Viper Also known as:

NUMBER: #1310

Introduced: 2010
Final Year:
Designer:

Type: Fantasy Scale, Clone
Motor Mount: 1x18mm
Recovery: Parachute
Stages: 1
Length: 12.5"
Diameter: 0.976"
Span:
Weight: 2.4 oz

Mfg. Description: DESC

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First post in this thread featuring this rocket.

See Also: LINKS
EMRR
RocketReviews
Mfg. Page


If you have any additional information on this rocket and/or catalog photos please let us know.

[Mike Howie]

Reading all the Posts about the BSG Viper in the "Wanted" thread, (http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=47) got me to thinking
of how many Vipers I have. It turns out to be the second most built style
I have, After various iterations of the Saturn. I thought I'd share.

1st is my original Estes Viper. I flew it a couple of times, and didn't like that the
top fin kept breaking. (grain going in the wrong direction.)

SO I cloned it. This was before I had a way to print my own decals, I
hand drew the details with a brush. Not much skill there, but it was good enough for me.

Next up is a down scale I made to fly on 13mm motors. At the time my flying
field was small. Smaller motors (and rockets) were what was needed.

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[Mike Howie]

Here are my three original style Vipers.
With my current goonification phase, the Viper seemed a good choice.
Still needs more work.

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[Mike Howie]

When the New BSG came on, I just had to try and make one of these Vipers.
On my first attempt, I tried to make the proportions a close to the drawings I
found on the Web as I could. I knew that it would need lots of nose weight,
that meant 24mm motors. This model has flown a few times. I wasn't satisfied
with the way it coned on the way up. Time to try again.

For the second try, I put up a build thread on TRF 1, and even had Roskoracer
join in the build. To fight the coning problem, I stretched the body slightly, and
made the fins a little bit bigger. Still a 24mm motor. I haven't finished with the
decals yet.

The third pic shows the different size for both of these models.

I hope you enjoyed my walk down Viper lane.

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[dlazarus6660]

I bought a Morerockets.com Viper(Estes clone), built it, and I thought it needed more(get it....more)detail. I searched the web and found paper Colonial Viper I like even better. Turns out to be almost the same scale as the Estes Viper with better detail. It was not difficut to build, on a sclae of 1-10 I give it a 5. The most difficult parts were the wings and the laser cannons due to the size. I just finished it up today, it took three days of leisurely building and suspect it would take only one full day if you build all the parts first and then assemble it.
I added a few modifications as I was building it just to see how it would turn out.
I will build this model again converting to a rocket for 18mm motors and do a build thread.
The web page for the building(assembling) the BSG Colonial Viper has a few mistakes and I will point them out as I go along with my build.
Stay tuned.

Daniel


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[dlazarus6660]

A few more pic's


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[Micromeister]

Only have an estes 1979 version in the fleet. Still fly it occasionally, it's logged 53 flights, lots of snapped fins and laser canons. not very detailed but for what it was intended it's a keeper

[Verna]

Here's a couple of photos for the gallery of ours.

If you go here: http://www.vernarockets.com/id26.html scroll the page and you can see Vipers built by several other member's of Red Squadron.

Sue Deberg's are fantastic, Jim Neubauer's is huge! All are great!

Verna
www.vernarockets.com