Have a LPR sci-fi something developing along in sort of a make it up as you go process to fit a general theme in mind.
Progress will be slow.
Main body is BT-60. Larger pods are whatever the Estes SR-71 Blackbird uses for engine detail, BT-50? Small pods are BT-5.
Still to make boat tail.
Still to design front end.
Is going to wind up a heavier low altitude model but that's okay, am building for looks. Two blue guys on base are 1/72 scale. Will probably call model 1/144 scale. May well paint it white and slap Pan Am airliner decals on it.
Am kind of looking for an interesting nosecone in BT-60 size for it.
Now, just what precisely the definition of "interesting nosecone" is remains rather nebulous at present.
What counts a top and bottom of model isn't settled yet. Am leaning toward calling SR-71 engine side the top.
Oh, yeah, haven't used Open rocket before, might have to use it on this after a get-acquainted project of simpler nature.
later,
Forrest
Oh, one more thing, body tube forward of dark ring has not been cut to length, that part isn't decided yet.
Last edited by modeltrains; 8th July 2011 at 06:18 AM.
Reason: added a thought
later, Forrest "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934