Model Rocket Alignment Chart

[DAllen]

How nerdy is this? I made an alignment chart of the more popular model rockets...well most of them are popular. I'm thinking it would be cool if other people made alignment charts like this but with a more specific theme like, clusters, odd-rocs, or a specific manufacturer. I'm sure folks will come along and criticize what I have here and that's ok but keep in mind this is just for fun and anything like this is going to be super opinionated. With the exception of the Cosmos Mariner. It's definitely chaotic evil since it is satans spawn.



Have fun with it.

 

[boatgeek]

I'm pretty sure you need to get some @Daddyisabar specials into the Chaotic column.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Neat idea! Reminds me of those crazy charts on XKCD!

 

[Daddyisabar]

I'm pretty sure you need to get some @Daddyisabar specials into the Chaotic column.

I will have to cast a Know Alignment spell on my birds to get all the answers. I only do old school AD&D (pre 1984) so get out the battle die for thier saving throws.

The Lawful Good section should fill up fast with all the HiPo 3-4FNC beauties! Performance, high technology, safety, good looks, they have it all. The Jedi Clerics and Paladins will rejoice in their superior goodness.

Chaotic Neutral and below will belong to critters and oddroc abominations. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

 

[jqavins]

There's one (and only one) choice with which I must take issue: The Dude is not evil. The Dude is just so comical that it breaks the chart. I'm sure that whoever dreamed up that thing was smoking weed and watching The Big Lebowski at the time.

 

[Daddyisabar]

A neutral evil kit would be like the Estes Spaceship One E, the Foamy Horror Show. Not quite as bad as the Cosmos Mariner but close. The kit getting banned from a club launch would put it in the Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil section.

 

[Daddyisabar]

There's one (and only one) choice with which I must take issue: The Dude is not evil. The Dude is just so comical that it breaks the chart. I'm sure that whoever dreamed up that thing was smoking weed and watching The Big Lebowski at the time.

The Dude is true Neutral. It Abides!

 

[Antares JS]

Didn't someone actually get hurt by the X-15 RTF? That would work better for NE.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Didn't someone actually get hurt by the X-15 RTF? That would work better for NE.

Bordering on Chaotic Evil for that abomination. The many manufacturing flaws and recalls would put push it over the edge to CE in my opinion.

 

[Daddyisabar]

I would say TLP kits would go into the CG or CN category depending on model. The good ones were more traditional, stable and had no potters clay nose weight or witches hats. Still Chaotic in sports scale, construction techniques and materials provided in kit.

 

[Antares JS]

Bordering on Chaotic Evil for that abomination. The many manufacturing flaws and recalls would put push it over the edge to CE in my opinion.

Okay, X-15 can be CE and we'll bump Cosmos Mariner over to NE.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Okay, X-15 can be CE and we'll bump Cosmos Mariner over to NE.

You are more forgiving of the Cosmos Mariner. From what I've seen and heard it is solidly CE. A true RSO frightening machine, especially when not Pro built.

 

[Antares JS]

You are more forgiving of the Cosmos Mariner. From what I've seen and heard it is solidly CE. A true RSO frightening machine, especially when not Pro built.

For the record, I've never actually seen the Cosmos Mariner fly, I'm only giving CE to X-15 because someone actually got hurt by one.

 

[jqavins]

I'd never heard of the Cosmos Mariner model until I saw it in this thread, so I Googled it. On Rocket Reviews, there are two reviews. While both rocketeers give it high marks for the build (despite fitment trouble with the plastic clam shell body), one calls is complete crap for flying, and the other really likes it a lot. That sounds like CE to me; just kind enough to just enough people to lure others in to their doom, and random as to who gets the good experiences.

For the record, I've never actually seen the Cosmos Mariner fly, I'm only giving CE to X-15 because someone actually got hurt by one.

That could fit for NE, the purest evil.

 

[KenECoyote]

 

[Daddyisabar]

Noris kits? The Natter. Vacuform, no or terrible instructions, squishy tubes, cardstock fins, foreign motor sizing, no kit supplied nose weight, needing a Master Race skill level and times of spewing profanity during the build? Not PC paint scheme. Hard to fly. I'm thinking CE for Natter, NE for Evil Empire Soyuz and Vostok, CG for Ariane.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Take a marginal kit and make it bad with paint scheme!

 

[Daddyisabar]

For the record, I've never actually seen the Cosmos Mariner fly, I'm only giving CE to X-15 because someone actually got hurt by one.

I have seen them fly, both newbie and pro. I need to reenter therapy after each witness.

 

[DAllen]

For the record, I've never actually seen the Cosmos Mariner fly, I'm only giving CE to X-15 because someone actually got hurt by one.

If Estes sold as many CM as they did X-15's I guarantee MANY people would have been hurt by the CM. That thing was a true abomination. I have no idea wtf Estes was thinking with that kit.

 

[DAllen]

And every Dude I've seen has needed a little blue pill.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Sunward airplane kits are CG

Sunward Umbrella and Pyramid are True Neutral.

 

[Daddyisabar]

And every Dude I've seen has needed a little blue pill.

I once saw a guy fly a Dude three times in a row and it remained totally stiff. A great day of flying for him.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Kit bashing and gluing together multiple Estes PS II kits after the big Christmas Sale is Chaotic Good? Making them clusters.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Flying the Estes Interceptor E with iceberg lettuce recovery wadding is Neutral Good?

 

[Daddyisabar]

A horizontal take off Space 1999 Eagle PMC on a cut C11 0 with a dab of BP on top. Immediately rejected by club RSO at first sight. Banned locally, only allowed to Tripoli Research launch in South Park. Chaotic Evil. Go launch that abomination with the Demogorgon!

 

[Daddyisabar]

The ultimate Neutral Good High Po kit: The Madcow BOMARC. Just a little scary.

Seen here with a CN TLP Ruskie Krypton kit.

 

[Daddyisabar]

All rack rockets are evil. I would put this one with five D12 motors at Neutral, pure Evil.

 

[Daddyisabar]

Chaotic Evil incarnate. Picked directly from the bowels of the layer Jubilex. Egg rockets need fins! Flying stuff from a Hobby Lobby holiday clearance is very suspect.

 

[jqavins]

iceberg lettuce recovery wadding...
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Is that really a thing? I love it!

The Madcow BOMARC.
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That reminds me of something I saw on YouTube the other day. It makes me want to build a BOMARK and paint it in a flame job.

 

[neil_w]

I thought the Cosmos Mariner was perfectly placed (and got a chuckle)