swatkat
Down these mean skies, a kat must fly!
No launch today, so finished up painting the Mach One Rocketry Portia. I'll post photos on the build thread tomorrow. It came out really well. After THREE cans of Duplicolor!!!
I'm doing some fillet repair after finding a couple of hairline cracks in the paint where the fillet faired into the fin on my Quicksilver. The fins are still solidly attached through the wall and the body is foamed, so I think a recent impact with the garage concrete flexed the fin enough to initiate a delamination. Oops. Oh well, I've been meaning to repaint this one anyway.
A little wet sanding, a little Dremeling, a little scraping....
I got super excited when Tim sent an email, and UPS confirmed I have 23lbs of motors on the way. Great black friday....
I finally got around to building the Estes SR-71 blackbird that I bought two years ago when I was a TRF noob from cbrarick. I had one of these in the early '90s, but I, regrettably, never finished the build. Since this hobby is 50% about reliving my childhood, and 50% about learning new, cool stuff, I figured it was time to finish what I started ~25 years ago.
Thankfully, Chris Michielssen has a series of blog posts on building the SR-71 to serve as my guide. The first step is gluing together the multi-part fins. I usually hate this, but I think it turned out pretty well this time.
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Bought another Go Devil 38. That’ll bring me up to four 38mm min-diameter birds. Ka-pow!
That's a lot of Go. I got to ask, why so many?
I’ll never tell!Like the age-old question of how many guns does one person need, the answer is always "just one more".
But really I just hope he's building one of these...
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