"Lady Ada"

Here is my take on the Steampunk genre. Enter this in the kit-bashed (name that kit?), clustered (2 x 24mm) category. My son created the nose art decal and gave it to me as a Christmas present, I think he was tired of the rocket sitting on my workbench for over a year and wanted me to just finish it.



According to RockSim, it should be flyable on a couple D12's, but I would have to use F39's to guarantee a stable flight if only one motor ignites.

I like that...

Very cool...

Silver Comet?

That is a really cool design! You did a great job.

Is it just me, or does the first picture create the illusion that the rocket is 8 feet tall? I'm not sure if you'll be able to get it out of the house, but if you do, you should be able to ride in it!

V2?

Very nicely done.

WOW! Great job.

Good guess on the V2, this project actually started out with me trying to build a scale'ish V-2 from two identical kits. Well, a complete kit plus a lonely nose cone that survived a crash that destroyed the rest of the rocket. When I realized that a single 24mm motor wasn't enough power, I went ahead and built it as a cluster. Then came the steampunking, pods, spring loaded landing gear, etc., etc., etc.

Now that you mention it, the first picture does make the rocket look enormous. It is actually sitting on a coffee table and not the floor. I hope most of the bits stay attached when I launch it.

Very nice!
That's the way it should be done!

Awesome post early in your TRF use. Great work! Any chance of a flight video or pics once you get her in the air?

Very impressive.

DUDE, I LOVE IT !!

I may never get stung by the "Steampunk Bug." But if I ever do......heaven help me....I admire all the detail to no end. Good work my friend.

Is the name "Lady Ada" a reference to she of the data processing fame?

Ada Lovelace is widely recognized as the first computer programer back in the early 1800's.

All I can say is Wow! Great Job!

Wow,,,
What a gorgeous rocket...
I think that is so cool...
Massive attention to detail...
Meticulous workmanship...
Just smokin...

Everybody's right about the first shot...
You couldn't have set that up better if you tried...
The table looks like a hardwood floor...
This thing's got to be a solid 8 ft.....
All I could think was D12's ???????? Is he nut's....lol...lol...

Teddy

Very nice!!!i

Fantastic

How did you do the "view ports"?

I like the way you tapered down to the two separated motor tubes and the Portholed segment is inspired. Do you have anyone/thing looking out of them?

You need to find some brass colored high temp paint for those motor retainers or use the same color as the “Portholed” section of the rocket; the stock black color just looks wrong.

That is soooooo cool.

Amazing bit of work there..congrats

Super Duper!

Wow, great job on the rocket!

Yeah, I've actually had an account on this forum for years but wanted to change my user name. I couldn't ever get any help from the admin, so I went ahead and created a new account.

o1d_dude said:

Is the name "Lady Ada" a reference to she of the data processing fame?

Ada Lovelace is widely recognized as the first computer programer back in the early 1800's.

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Exactly, I figure that spacecraft of the 1880's would owe a lot to Babbage and the programmers of the 1830's.

les said:

Fantastic

How did you do the "view ports"?

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They are small lengths of 38mm Blue Tube that were sanded to fit the outside diameter of the airframe. The clear domes are from Plastruct, along with all the other fiddly bits. For the hatch I painted the dome from the inside, for the three windows I scaled and printed out iris images and glued them across the base of the domes.

boomtube-mk2 said:

I like the way you tapered down to the two separated motor tubes and the Portholed segment is inspired. Do you have anyone/thing looking out of them?

You need to find some brass colored high temp paint for those motor retainers or use the same color as the “Portholed” section of the rocket; the stock black color just looks wrong.

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The motor tubes are the biggest boo boo on the rocket. I spent days trying to figure out a mathematical way of figuring out how to cut the boattail to fit around the motor tubes. I finally just built the motor mount and then just kept cutting away whatever was in the way of sliding the boattail on. When I was finished I realized that the motor tubes didn't line up exactly with the spaces between the fins as intended. Oh well, shouldn't effect flight dynamics at all.

No, the portholes don't penetrate the airframe, hence all the irises are closed. I've had good luck with regular Rustoleum on anodized retainers so far, so I may go ahead and paint them to get the "wrought iron" look.

That rocket looks awesome. Are you gonna fire it up soon?

Maybe as soon as this Saturday, if the weather holds.

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!

So impressed!
NikeMikey

No more guesses as to the original Estes kit???

Big Daddy with some Renegade left overs?