After all the boxes arrived from the Estes Christmas sale it was time to start gluing all those kits together for some good ole fashion kit bashing. Take the Ventris and glue the top haves of Super Neon’s for a Ventris Titan III like cluster rocket. Take the Argent and glue three Super Alphas on it for an Argent Redstone like scheme. Take a Partizon and glue two D Region Tomahawks to it for some bizarre early sixties looking rocket.
The Argent will go on 1 F15-4 and 3 E9-6. The other two will go on 1 F15-4 and two E12-4s. Hopefully enough stock chutes will deploy to avoid a crash landing. With two oz. nose weight the Pad Fuhrer gave me the wavy hand and a “maybe” on the acceptable stability of the Argent Redstone. Lots of inefficient, heavy black powder motors in the back end will send this one to launch with the big boys on the prairie.
The Partizon also got 2 oz. in the cone but I have to watch the overall weight going on just 2 E12s and one F15. CG might still be slightly below Pad Fuhrer specs so it looks like this one might again not pass muster as a cluster.
The Ventris Titan III has no additional nose weight and was not ready for the two week pre inspection period as required by the terms off my odd roc 12 step recovery program (paint job not finished). Still, propellant weight will doom this cluster. But it looks marvelous.
My best hope is to forget the silly clustering and do the smart rocket science thing; use a single 29mm composite and a bigger chute. But I have already glued the motor block in for the F15s. At least these three look like rockets with nose cones up front and motors with fins in back. I have used the Estes motor retainers on all and the Ventris Titan III has motor hooks in the outside pods. All are good signs I am recovering from that silly odd roc phase. With a lot more work in good science and techniques I might just be able to stay on the 4FNC wagon.
The Argent will go on 1 F15-4 and 3 E9-6. The other two will go on 1 F15-4 and two E12-4s. Hopefully enough stock chutes will deploy to avoid a crash landing. With two oz. nose weight the Pad Fuhrer gave me the wavy hand and a “maybe” on the acceptable stability of the Argent Redstone. Lots of inefficient, heavy black powder motors in the back end will send this one to launch with the big boys on the prairie.
The Partizon also got 2 oz. in the cone but I have to watch the overall weight going on just 2 E12s and one F15. CG might still be slightly below Pad Fuhrer specs so it looks like this one might again not pass muster as a cluster.
The Ventris Titan III has no additional nose weight and was not ready for the two week pre inspection period as required by the terms off my odd roc 12 step recovery program (paint job not finished). Still, propellant weight will doom this cluster. But it looks marvelous.
My best hope is to forget the silly clustering and do the smart rocket science thing; use a single 29mm composite and a bigger chute. But I have already glued the motor block in for the F15s. At least these three look like rockets with nose cones up front and motors with fins in back. I have used the Estes motor retainers on all and the Ventris Titan III has motor hooks in the outside pods. All are good signs I am recovering from that silly odd roc phase. With a lot more work in good science and techniques I might just be able to stay on the 4FNC wagon.
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