There are usually a few such models at the contests I attend occasionally. That detail painting is impressive and I can understand the tedious work it entails. Nice job.I've also built models in the past, but it's been decades since I've really done such. Back then I'd be cross-eyed for hours on end making the details perfect!
Here's some pics of one of my better pieces...not the best pics, but I took them recently to show a friend. Some parts may be broken from age...
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Punkin Chunkin these are from 2019. My catapult is Pumpkin Warrior 3. Spring powered and can throw an 8 lb pumpkin just over a quarter of a mile. View attachment 487910View attachment 487911
In another life, I've been a luthier/instrument builder (currently on hiatus). This is some of my work:
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Alright! Another pyro guy! Looks like a barge shoot in the pic. Where was this?
Alright! Another pyro guy! Looks like a barge shoot in the pic. Where was this?
Beginning Pyro guy here. I'm at the I want to make a 3" ball shell stage. I've made good (hot) BP and some low level stuff but I'm slowly stepping into the next level. Pyro is how I got into HP rocketry. I was watching a Ned Gorski video and John Coker videos started showing up on my feed.
I'm a big fan of Ned and his site. The people there have been a lot of help. I'm flash powder phobic so I'm careful with what I make. I have a hydraulic star press and plates plus some rocket tooling. I just need to put some effort into using them. I've made cut stars. Baby stepsNed is a gateway to some interesting hobbies. He's a member of our pyro club in Indiana too.
The rocket in my picture above is a 3" blue and gold glitter with a bottom shot on a 3/4" whistle motor. It was still more motor than I needed, but I'm not sure if it would lift a 4" cylinder shell to the right height. I might need to make them with 2 breaks and a bottom shot to display the heading around 400' or so.
I've dabbled in chunkin at one time:
4lb pumpkins though.
I'm constantly amazed by the talents I see here on TRF and I'm sure there's a lot of other talents not being shown. My eyes are crying for more, so I'm starting a thread to showcase/showoff your other hobbies. Custom cars? Doodles? Crochet? Macaroni necklaces? Whatever it is, here's a good spot to show off for everyone's pleasure!
One of my former passions (currently taking a back seat to rocketry)...custom R/C car building...
A Customized Chevy engine model I made for a "50th Anniversary Clodbuster" build called "Gold Digger". This Youtube video has 1.3M hits (seems you get a million hits just by adding beer to a video):
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Here's the "Gold Digger" which had the above model engine installed - A working Monster Puller with a lot of custom parts including a etched gold colored plaque and has a full metal gear train...model engine was also made to shake as it speeds up and synced with the speed control. Won RCCA (RC Car Action) Ride of the Month and was 2nd or 3rd place for 2007 Ride of the year (Rock crawlers were big that year).
Another RC vehicle I designed and created...Full Metal Maxx/"Gorilla Warfare"...my own designed tank tracks and ended up about 95% metal (including the body, tracks and sprockets) and has a titanium tranny and brushless motor. Seems a major RC car parts company may have copied the track design a few years later since their product looks similar. My vehicle made it to 2008 RCCA Ride of the Month, but don't recall if it was a finalist for the year.
I really enjoyed the end results and most of the build; however custom projects like these become all-consuming and I found myself thinking almost 24/7 about a bumper or how to make something work for over a year. Not for those who are not strong-willed.
Come on people, let's see whatcha got!
BTW - I also started this thread since I misunderstood the topic of another "show off your hobby" thread and already wrote about my other hobby, so why waste all that time I spent on a nice post?
Spit,
Nice aircraft photo's. But my curiosity is getting the better of me, whats the crib photo?
Did you make it?
Tell me more about the Mars Lander on the top left? From a kit?
Tell me more about the Mars Lander on the top left? From a kit?
I was wondering who made that size of Mars Lander.? That is one of the possible kits that I would like to put together but I just don't want the real small one. I went to the Tango Papa site that was advertised in Sport Rocketry magazine a few years ago, but it's not mentioned anywhere that I could find. it was a 1.6X version. What scale is yours?It started out as a clone, but I finished it up with the Semroc wraps.
Its retired after many flights, I have 2 semroc kits still to build build.
There is a build thread on it here from years ago, along with the other versions of the ML I have built.
And I dabble in old British cars and car shows.
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