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Here is my 9" patriot.
Nose: 1 of 2 I have from some local guys in the Culpeper Club
It's fiberglass so it has 4" QT running from the tip to about 12" from the shoulder.
The nose had very little shoulder so I added about a 6" of tubing to make the nose a little more to scale. It has (like every other nose 6" or larger has the bulkplate up inside the shoulder to house the MW WRC2 for main backup.
Airframe: 9" of generic tubing that is as porous as a hand towel. I acquired these over 12 years ago from Ken Allen. an acquaintance of his was starting out making nose cones, tubes and such. I had him glass wrap them and he did and finished it gelcoat. I stretched a chunk of airfram sleeve material and added to thin layers of epoxy. Finish came out grea and they are stout.
Fins: 1/2" baltic birch through to the motor assembly.
Motor mount: 1 - 98mm and 8- 38mm outboards (2 are reserved for timer modules.)
Got some vinyl lettering and painted ALL of it with Krylon

Flew several weeks ago at BattlePark 2016 in Culpeper.

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Slowed Flight from BattlePark on an AT - M1850W reload in an 8000n Loki case.

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Patriot family.
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4" Madcow clone, 38mm motor mount
2.6" Estes Pro Patriot clone, 4x24mm motor mount
1.6" Estes kit, 18mm motor mount
1.6" Madcow kit, 29mm motor mount
Estes Mini Patriot kit and clone, 13mm motor mounts.

Will be finishing the 4 incher in a different livery for a change.
Type 2 in this pic:
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Vinyl from Stickershock already in hand. Now to get off my butt and actually finish this.:D
Laters.
 
1.6" Madcow kit, 29mm motor mount

What on earth can you even fly that on?


I spoke with a coworker on my previous program about this with my PS Patriot build in mind. He worked the Patriot program for a long time and has never seen anything like the so-called "type 2" or "scud buster" in existence.
Additionally, the "type 1" was only used in very early testing, and that was hit or miss.

These days the GEM-T test rounds are Orangey as below (which then look brown after they're shot out of a tube in a fireball) and operational rounds are probably plain metal colored more like this 2nd pic

 
What on earth can you even fly that on?
Umm, maybe an H?:D

I spoke with a coworker on my previous program about this with my PS Patriot build in mind. He worked the Patriot program for a long time and has never seen anything like the so-called "type 2" or "scud buster" in existence.
Additionally, the "type 1" was only used in very early testing, and that was hit or miss.
But I don't flail with the scale, I dash with the flash.;)
Cheers.
 
But I don't flail with the scale, I dash with the flash

I can be on board with that. I regularly find myself saying "bugger the scalefolk!"

I also don't know why on earth Stickershock has that as a decal set if it isn't anything real
 
Even though I probably have over a dozen (or two) Patriot kits since I'm crazy about them, I've never built one until recently.

I decided to do a rush build of the Madcow 4" Patriot to be able to launch it at our club during the appropriately enough July 4th weekend launch on an I600.

Mission accomplished and it was announced as "American Patriot"! 😁👍

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Here's my recently completed Estes Patriot, #2056. It has two main modifications:

1. Nose cone and main body tube payload bays
2. 24mm MMT (double-walled) that's been lengthened to use a 24mm version of my removable baffle.

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