FatBoy
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About 4 years ago I built a steampunked ACME Spitfire pictured below on the left, and I wrote up the following build thread for it:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...-Spitfire-Steampunk-style&highlight=steampunk
I have started building a second steampunk ACME Spitfire shown in the second and third pictures below. Structuraly, it is per the FlisKits instructions, except that I added some balsa stringers under the paper shroud in the rear to help support the fins. I did the same thing in the last build, except this time I ran them the full length of the paper shroud.
The second picture below shows the body all put together. I wrapped a layer of zebra wood veneer around the top section of the rocket. I also laminated the veneer on each side of a thin piece of balsa to make Fin #1. I coated the zebra wood veneer with Minwax Polycrylic. I soaked the paper shroud in CA and mounted the fins with epoxy. They are rock solid.
I started adding some of the details (shown in the third picture). These details were all cut out of manila file folders using my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. To get the thin wraps around the ends of each body tube section and the decorative scallops at the top of section 3 to follow the curved edge of the body tubes, I used Adobe Illustrator to draw them out to match the wrap templates supplied with the kit. Cutting with the Cameo saved me hours of X-Acto knife work. I added some splines to the leading edge of fin #4, and some "shingles" to fin#3.
The next step is to add the launch lug, then more details, and then hundreds of rivets.....
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...-Spitfire-Steampunk-style&highlight=steampunk
I have started building a second steampunk ACME Spitfire shown in the second and third pictures below. Structuraly, it is per the FlisKits instructions, except that I added some balsa stringers under the paper shroud in the rear to help support the fins. I did the same thing in the last build, except this time I ran them the full length of the paper shroud.
The second picture below shows the body all put together. I wrapped a layer of zebra wood veneer around the top section of the rocket. I also laminated the veneer on each side of a thin piece of balsa to make Fin #1. I coated the zebra wood veneer with Minwax Polycrylic. I soaked the paper shroud in CA and mounted the fins with epoxy. They are rock solid.
I started adding some of the details (shown in the third picture). These details were all cut out of manila file folders using my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. To get the thin wraps around the ends of each body tube section and the decorative scallops at the top of section 3 to follow the curved edge of the body tubes, I used Adobe Illustrator to draw them out to match the wrap templates supplied with the kit. Cutting with the Cameo saved me hours of X-Acto knife work. I added some splines to the leading edge of fin #4, and some "shingles" to fin#3.
The next step is to add the launch lug, then more details, and then hundreds of rivets.....