Over on the Yorf site is an old thread which I just encountered last September, called "Some forgotten Shrox kits". Since I was in the mood for another thematic build, I decided to build them. All of them. Every on on the list, and others that I could find.
So I did.
Some were easy to build, since Apogee included the plans in their newsletters, and has (or at least had) the dimensions and decals.
Others could be inferred from Rocksim files that were released, although I needed to draw and print the decals myself.
Others could be inferred from plan drawings released by Shrox, with top, side, and end views. With some reasoning about the parts sizes, the drawings could be scaled and kits made, once decals were drawn.
The hardest were extrapolated from photos or projection drawings. For those, some mathematics and some assumptions were made, so that I could reverse engineer the dimensions.
Of course, some reverse engineered kits may be off by a fraction of in inch in some places. Others that only had crude images available (like the black-and white pixellated image of the Quantum Boom I have) may be quite a bit off. But, I feel that the results are representative of the Shrox designs.
I did not build the recently announced kits, which Shrox announced at the end of 2012. Sure, those kits could be reverse engineered from the pictures, but I'd rather buy them from him, and then clone them from the kits I purchased. That's what I did with the currently available kits from Dynstar, Flis, and Quest. I bought them and cloned them - except for the Quest kits, which I bought and built beause they have too much white in their decals.
I'll not release any of the plans I created or the Rocksim files, since most of those kits were commercial, and might still become such. Besides, I like Shrox's designs and don't want to undercut his work.
The list of the Shrox kits I built and will be publishing pictures of, not including the gliders, is:
Aerospace One, Quest
Aerospace One Fighter Escort, Quest
Alien8, Flis
Alien8, Shrox
Aries
Bolaero Z
Capricorn (variant of Icarus)
Daedelus (variant of Icarus)
Dart
DC Sam
Demon Squid
Der Rammstein
DynasoarX
Europa Probe
Federation
Firefox, Shrox
Firefox, Dynastar
Harrier
Helios
Hyperion
Icarus
Javelin
Lancer (variant of Stiletto)
LexxJet, Dynastar
Mars Plymouth
Oberth
Orion, Apogee
Orion, Shrox
Orion Transport, Dynastar
Quantum Boom
Ripley
Sarah Conner
Scram Cat
Sea Zipper
Sea-Snake
SHX-15
SHX-15B
SHX-15D Delta
SHX Star shuttle
SHX-21 Rocket Plane
SHX-24B w/ booster
SHX-3
SHX-3, midpower
Snarky, Dynastar
Snipet
Solarkron
Space Alpha One
Star 01
Stiletto, shrox
Stiletto, Quest
Stonebreaker AX
Stonebreaker, Dynastar
SHX-10 Navaho
Tritip
TVM-01
Twoner
Undercutter
Vipox
XF-45
Edit: I haven't launched any of these yet. Too cold and wet for me to go out with my rockets.
So I did.
Some were easy to build, since Apogee included the plans in their newsletters, and has (or at least had) the dimensions and decals.
Others could be inferred from Rocksim files that were released, although I needed to draw and print the decals myself.
Others could be inferred from plan drawings released by Shrox, with top, side, and end views. With some reasoning about the parts sizes, the drawings could be scaled and kits made, once decals were drawn.
The hardest were extrapolated from photos or projection drawings. For those, some mathematics and some assumptions were made, so that I could reverse engineer the dimensions.
Of course, some reverse engineered kits may be off by a fraction of in inch in some places. Others that only had crude images available (like the black-and white pixellated image of the Quantum Boom I have) may be quite a bit off. But, I feel that the results are representative of the Shrox designs.
I did not build the recently announced kits, which Shrox announced at the end of 2012. Sure, those kits could be reverse engineered from the pictures, but I'd rather buy them from him, and then clone them from the kits I purchased. That's what I did with the currently available kits from Dynstar, Flis, and Quest. I bought them and cloned them - except for the Quest kits, which I bought and built beause they have too much white in their decals.
I'll not release any of the plans I created or the Rocksim files, since most of those kits were commercial, and might still become such. Besides, I like Shrox's designs and don't want to undercut his work.
The list of the Shrox kits I built and will be publishing pictures of, not including the gliders, is:
Aerospace One, Quest
Aerospace One Fighter Escort, Quest
Alien8, Flis
Alien8, Shrox
Aries
Bolaero Z
Capricorn (variant of Icarus)
Daedelus (variant of Icarus)
Dart
DC Sam
Demon Squid
Der Rammstein
DynasoarX
Europa Probe
Federation
Firefox, Shrox
Firefox, Dynastar
Harrier
Helios
Hyperion
Icarus
Javelin
Lancer (variant of Stiletto)
LexxJet, Dynastar
Mars Plymouth
Oberth
Orion, Apogee
Orion, Shrox
Orion Transport, Dynastar
Quantum Boom
Ripley
Sarah Conner
Scram Cat
Sea Zipper
Sea-Snake
SHX-15
SHX-15B
SHX-15D Delta
SHX Star shuttle
SHX-21 Rocket Plane
SHX-24B w/ booster
SHX-3
SHX-3, midpower
Snarky, Dynastar
Snipet
Solarkron
Space Alpha One
Star 01
Stiletto, shrox
Stiletto, Quest
Stonebreaker AX
Stonebreaker, Dynastar
SHX-10 Navaho
Tritip
TVM-01
Twoner
Undercutter
Vipox
XF-45
Edit: I haven't launched any of these yet. Too cold and wet for me to go out with my rockets.
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