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I'm in the middle of a scratch build I'm currently calling "Jefferson Starship". I started out wanting to build a hybrid "BSG Viper/Cylon/Chiggy Von Richtofen" type craft, and then it sort of took on a life of it's own. It was supposed to look like an alien craft, and then I realized I liked the long tube, "passenger aircraft" look that it was taking. So I re-imaged it as a space-going tri-engined machine that had been purchased by a rock-group to travel from planet to planet as their tour-bus.
It's a BT-55 body tube shortened by an inch, and using 'E" motor mount tubes as the tri-engine section that are glued on to be parallel with the engine hook on the actual 18mm motor mount in the BT-55, so this can stand on it's tail like all my other rockets. The rest of it is literally scrap balsa (the wings are leftovers from a Big Bertha kit). Pretty simple and should fly well once I get this thing painted.
It's a BT-55 body tube shortened by an inch, and using 'E" motor mount tubes as the tri-engine section that are glued on to be parallel with the engine hook on the actual 18mm motor mount in the BT-55, so this can stand on it's tail like all my other rockets. The rest of it is literally scrap balsa (the wings are leftovers from a Big Bertha kit). Pretty simple and should fly well once I get this thing painted.