paul.nortness
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Holy Rockets Batman!
That paint scheme looks great!
That paint scheme looks great!
Estes Hyper Bat - BATMAN build
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I Like it!
Great job.
I wish I had thought of that for mine.
Great job.
I wish I had thought of that for mine.
Thanks for the compliments! I really appreciate them.
rbelknap
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Wow, that is such a cool looking rocket! And I think I learned a few things about masking and painting from reading about your build.
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Funny, I decided to do something similar with my Batrok. My scheme was based on the Batman the Brave and the Bold" cartoon my son watches:
I've been thinking about getting a hyper bat and doing something like it again.
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Funny, I decided to do something similar with my Batrok. My scheme was based on the Batman the Brave and the Bold" cartoon my son watches:
I've been thinking about getting a hyper bat and doing something like it again.
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I'm almost done here. Just a few things left to do.
To give the rocket a final touch I'm going to make a decal for the upper yellow section. I found an image online of a logo from the old batman show and used a bitmap editor to make sure the white areas are all white. Most printers won't print white, so when you're printing a decal that part becomes transparent unless you've got white backed decal paper.
The logo I'm printing has the word BATMAN in white, so the yellow from the upper section will show through and the letters will be yellow. If I had left the logo like I found it, the white areas might have some off-white printed in the letters and that would keep the yellow from showing through as much and it would probably look bad.
I printed a few sizes on regular paper first and picked a good size for the decal. Then I copied the logo so 4 would print, just in case one messed up. Here is the decal sheet just out of the printer:
According to the decal sheet instruction I let the ink dry for a while and then sprayed it with stuff to coat the ink side. Apparently this will let the ink stay on when soaking the decal for application. I'll try and apply tomorrow and see what happens.
To give the rocket a final touch I'm going to make a decal for the upper yellow section. I found an image online of a logo from the old batman show and used a bitmap editor to make sure the white areas are all white. Most printers won't print white, so when you're printing a decal that part becomes transparent unless you've got white backed decal paper.
The logo I'm printing has the word BATMAN in white, so the yellow from the upper section will show through and the letters will be yellow. If I had left the logo like I found it, the white areas might have some off-white printed in the letters and that would keep the yellow from showing through as much and it would probably look bad.
I printed a few sizes on regular paper first and picked a good size for the decal. Then I copied the logo so 4 would print, just in case one messed up. Here is the decal sheet just out of the printer:
According to the decal sheet instruction I let the ink dry for a while and then sprayed it with stuff to coat the ink side. Apparently this will let the ink stay on when soaking the decal for application. I'll try and apply tomorrow and see what happens.
Thanks for sharing the build!
Your work and idea's are top notch.
I want to upscale the Hyper Bat to BT-80 single stage w/29mm EM.
So many idea's, so little time.
A.D.D. = Body moves 1/10th the speed of the brain. argggg
Your work and idea's are top notch.
I want to upscale the Hyper Bat to BT-80 single stage w/29mm EM.
So many idea's, so little time.
A.D.D. = Body moves 1/10th the speed of the brain. argggg
Having given the decal a full day to set up (I have no idea how long it actually needed and hope that a day is enough) I took a look at the decals to pick one to use. I'm glad I printed multiple copies because I noticed one had a huge piece of fuzz that had stuck to the middle of one of them. Another one had something else, but two were good so I just picked one of those.
I cut it fairly close to the printed image, leaving about a 1/16" all around. The instructions say to soak it in water for only 5 seconds and then let it sit on a paper towel. It's a little different than a regular decal because the printer ink could run if left in the water too long.
It only took about 4 minutes before the decal could slide off the paper backing. I used my finger to put some water on the rocket tube where the decal would go and started sliding. It wrinkled a little but using the backing I was able to flatten it and squeegee out the water behind it.
It looked just like I wanted it to!!! Woo-HOO!!!!
So I set the rocket up on the desk with my growing collection of rockets to give the decal a couple of days to dry. A few coats of clear enamel this weekend and it'll be finished.
I cut it fairly close to the printed image, leaving about a 1/16" all around. The instructions say to soak it in water for only 5 seconds and then let it sit on a paper towel. It's a little different than a regular decal because the printer ink could run if left in the water too long.
It only took about 4 minutes before the decal could slide off the paper backing. I used my finger to put some water on the rocket tube where the decal would go and started sliding. It wrinkled a little but using the backing I was able to flatten it and squeegee out the water behind it.
It looked just like I wanted it to!!! Woo-HOO!!!!
So I set the rocket up on the desk with my growing collection of rockets to give the decal a couple of days to dry. A few coats of clear enamel this weekend and it'll be finished.
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Ditto!
Thanks for the compliments!!!
I just bought an old Estes R2D2 rocket from eBay so I might build that one next instead of the SR-71 that I've got waiting on me. Not sure if I should do a build thread on it or not.
All that work....
Today I took my son out to fly some rockets and we started with the R2-D2. It flew well and worked great. The next was the Batman Hyper-Bat rocket.
I decided not to fly it as a 2 stage rocket today since we were in a school field and I knew we'd need more room to recover something that went too high. I was even worried that the single stage would go too high, but there was very little wind and the R2-D2 nearly came straight down so I wasn't worried. My son put the rocket in place and I took a picture of it on the pad.
After I connected the wires to the controller he did the count down and I managed to get a picture of the launch too. So far so good. Notice the really tall trees in the background?
It shot straight up and did a fine pitch over and the chute ejection happened barely in sight. If it had gone any higher I don't think I would have been able to see it. I took this picture by just aiming the camera up and snapping a pic, and when I got home and zoomed in I was happy to see that it's a picture shortly after the chute popped out.
As it floated down it started creeping towards the edge of the field and I ran over, thinking it might go over the fence and I'd have trouble getting it back. But it was worse than that, the rocket landed at the very top of a very tall pine tree. Can you see it in this picture? It's right in the middle.
I zoomed in and moved over slightly to get a better picture.
So the rocket is gone. Dang it. I suppose I'll order another kit someday and build a replacement. Fortunately I kept the hardest part of this at home, the Batman colored wings on the first stage. So when I rebuild it I'll have a lot less to do.
(heavy sigh)
Today I took my son out to fly some rockets and we started with the R2-D2. It flew well and worked great. The next was the Batman Hyper-Bat rocket.
I decided not to fly it as a 2 stage rocket today since we were in a school field and I knew we'd need more room to recover something that went too high. I was even worried that the single stage would go too high, but there was very little wind and the R2-D2 nearly came straight down so I wasn't worried. My son put the rocket in place and I took a picture of it on the pad.
After I connected the wires to the controller he did the count down and I managed to get a picture of the launch too. So far so good. Notice the really tall trees in the background?
It shot straight up and did a fine pitch over and the chute ejection happened barely in sight. If it had gone any higher I don't think I would have been able to see it. I took this picture by just aiming the camera up and snapping a pic, and when I got home and zoomed in I was happy to see that it's a picture shortly after the chute popped out.
As it floated down it started creeping towards the edge of the field and I ran over, thinking it might go over the fence and I'd have trouble getting it back. But it was worse than that, the rocket landed at the very top of a very tall pine tree. Can you see it in this picture? It's right in the middle.
I zoomed in and moved over slightly to get a better picture.
So the rocket is gone. Dang it. I suppose I'll order another kit someday and build a replacement. Fortunately I kept the hardest part of this at home, the Batman colored wings on the first stage. So when I rebuild it I'll have a lot less to do.
(heavy sigh)
What engine did you use as a single stage?
It was a B6-2 I believe.
Wow, it rolled over that much on a 2?
btw, check you email.
btw, check you email.
Someone just pointed out this line from my opening post in this thread to me.
Oh the irony. :cry:
I'm getting another kit though, and I'll definitely rebuild the main section to use with my bat wings from the lost rocket.
chivas3
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Sorry you lost your rocket- I just built one with a much more modest paintjob, but I'm confused about launching it as a single stage.
What holds the engine in place? Seems to me as soon as it stops producing forward thrust, it's gonna either drop out the bottom of the upper stage and/or shoot out once the secondary blast fires. Seems to me it might not even be able to blow off the nose cone.
I must be missing something here...
-Drew
The upper stage is a friction fit. If you fly it as a one stage you might want to wrap a piece or two of tape around the engine to make sure it doesn't slide easily, and you'll be okay.
more irony from post #8
"The result is tubes that are a lot stronger on the edges. This is especially good for the motor tubes that will have a LOT of inserting and removing of motors (that is unless the thing ends up in a tree after the first launch)"
Kirk G
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Keep visiting back to the field. There's a chance it will come down on it's own....or low enough that a wind gust might free it.... (well, you can hope...)
It's been almost two years since the tree got it.
I've been back several times since for various school functions and it's long gone. But that's okay, a few months after it was lost I built the replacement.
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Here is my bat rocket on a night flight.
Here is my bat rocket on a night flight.
