I am just stunned.....stunned that this category exists.
When the Goonybirds originally appeared in 1973, I wanted a Star Snoop...REALLY BADLY. My Dad nixed it however, telling me "Those aren't real rockets". I never got one.
Years later, I became a BAR, and of course, I started buying those original Goonybirds I never had as a kid. And cloning them...
I soon found that as appealingly strange as they were, they flew like pigs. Even the A10 barely got them going.
One day, I was building a Baby Bertha, and I had a set of fins on the table from a Goblin clone I was working on. For some reason, I was compelled to buiild the model with the Goblin fins. Once the model was painted, I added bits from the Goblin decal sheet. I suddenly realized, that I had a dwarfed, Goonybird version of the Goblin. Even better: the model flew well on an 18mm motor. Far better than the originals did on an A10.
It was all downhill from there... next was the Goony Max, then the Goonybird Zero.
I am tickled pink to see how so many modelers are building Goonies. I am also VERY impressed by the large variety of Goonified designs that have appeared on the forum. You guys have made Goony versions of designs I never thought could be Goonified!!
Get Goony!!
Phred
When the Goonybirds originally appeared in 1973, I wanted a Star Snoop...REALLY BADLY. My Dad nixed it however, telling me "Those aren't real rockets". I never got one.
Years later, I became a BAR, and of course, I started buying those original Goonybirds I never had as a kid. And cloning them...
I soon found that as appealingly strange as they were, they flew like pigs. Even the A10 barely got them going.
One day, I was building a Baby Bertha, and I had a set of fins on the table from a Goblin clone I was working on. For some reason, I was compelled to buiild the model with the Goblin fins. Once the model was painted, I added bits from the Goblin decal sheet. I suddenly realized, that I had a dwarfed, Goonybird version of the Goblin. Even better: the model flew well on an 18mm motor. Far better than the originals did on an A10.
It was all downhill from there... next was the Goony Max, then the Goonybird Zero.
I am tickled pink to see how so many modelers are building Goonies. I am also VERY impressed by the large variety of Goonified designs that have appeared on the forum. You guys have made Goony versions of designs I never thought could be Goonified!!
Get Goony!!
Phred