Need help identifying my garage sale kits

[vigilante]

Anybody recognize either of these 2 models? I believe the one with the dowels is a Custom Rockets kit. Maybe both are...

[RoyAtl]

Pretty sure first one is Custom Galileo.

Second one, if it had four fins instead of three, would look like the sustainer of an old Estes Apogee II.

[vigilante]

I'll bet you are correct on the Apogee II guess. I also have the booster that looks like a dog chewed on it. I just didn't know what it was. KEWL !!

Thanks.

ps. Love Tom Servo by the way!!

[vigilante]

And I think you are also correct on the Galileo. Well done!!

[RoyAtl]

I'll bet you are correct on the Apogee II guess. I also have the booster that looks like a dog chewed on it. I just didn't know what it was. KEWL !!

Thanks.

ps. Love Tom Servo by the way!!

Now that I look closer at the rocket, it looks like it had lines drawn for four fins but for whatever reason the builder decided to go for three.

[raohara]

Hmmm, I think the first one is the Twister. I have a few of the Twister bulk packs left and the model in your picture matches what is on front of the bulk pack box.

- Rich

[bjphoenix]

By coincidence I stumbled on this thread in the gallery:

http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=20124

[DavidQ]

Now that I look closer at the rocket, it looks like it had lines drawn for four fins but for whatever reason the builder decided to go for three.

'Cuz the dog liked the taste of the booster and went after one of the fins as well?

[plano-doug]

Hmmm, I think the first one is the Twister. I have a few of the Twister bulk packs left and the model in your picture matches what is on front of the bulk pack box.

Close. The Galileo is a sibling to the Twister and shares many parts. But the Twister's airframe is cylindrical. The Galileo is cone shaped. Notice in the pic how it gets wider in the aft end.

BTW, I never understood why Custom claimed it would twist (to create drag during descent). It don't.

Doug

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[loopy]

BTW, I never understood why Custom claimed it would twist (to create drag during descent). It don't.

I always wondered the same thing...straight up, and straight down...

[plano-doug]

I always wondered the same thing...straight up, and straight down...

Not only that, but as I recall on my Twister, the way the grain is run on the fun gussets, when it hits the ground (nose first), the momentum of the dowels (trying to swing forward toward the nose end) tends to stress the gussets such that they break along the grain.

After seeing mine crack along the grain, I papered over them and refinished it as I recall.

Doug

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