Lakeroadster's X-Wing Alpha Build Thread

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Made and installed the ballast on the nose cone today. I used 4 fender washers and turned them down to size on my drill press. To hold them onto the nose cone I crushed a 5/16" nut over the nose cone insert.

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Nice. Not too different from what I did on the IRIS-T except I didn't use the nut, and just epoxied the heck out of everything.

Come to think of it, what exactly is holding your nut on, if that's not too personal a question? ;)
 
Crawf56 said:
Some REAL men on this thread...….;)

Really looking forward to the flight on this model. :D
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Thanks. I'm slowly getting my home made 12V DeWalt drill driver battery pack powered launch controller put together.. but life gets in the way of hobbies.

Life's a journey... not a destination.

I'll be sure to "Lock S-foils in attack position....." :)
 
So... Have you finished up on this one? I've been following the lifting rocket too thinking you'd be switching back and forth.

-Bob
 
lakeroadster said:
I tried and was successful at adding the wingtip tubes... Thanks.

Also did some more fine tuning in Open Rocket, .ork file attached. I was surprised that simply changing the fins from square to round yielded an additional 300 feet of altitude.

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New here and hope I am doing this 1st reply right.. Thank you.. I downloaded all your drawings ( and not to sound like an 8th grader) OMG awsum.. Then I saw this you did on Open Rocket.. I have OR but never thought to try this design... With what you posted I am going to try a 13mm Design..
 
Twigbuck said:
New here and hope I am doing this 1st reply right.. Thank you.. I downloaded all your drawings ( and not to sound like an 8th grader) OMG awsum.. Then I saw this you did on Open Rocket.. I have OR but never thought to try this design... With what you posted I am going to try a 13mm Design..
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Glad you like the X-Wing.

Might I suggest that you start a build thread here so we can see how things progress with your rocket.
 
Created a CAD drawing of the TIE XI booster stage today. Should be fairly simple except for turning the fuselage on the lathe... which may not be to bad, never tried to turn a sphere before.

Inverted chase scene...

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If you rotate Darth 90deg of a barrel roll you can eliminate the stuffer tube and substantially improve the stack overall CG/CP relationship.

However, aesthetically it may not be as pleasing which can be fairly important on a bird like this.
 
My 18 mm version of the Centuri Design Contest model really scoots. I imagine that your 24 mm version will totally scream off the pad. Very nice finishing, nothing drab about it other than that nice shade of US ARMY olive.
 
lakeroadster said:
Created a CAD drawing of the TIE XI booster stage today. Should be fairly simple except for turning the fuselage on the lathe... which may not be to bad, never tried to turn a sphere before.
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I know people have used ping pong balls before. Those would be too small for your scale,

Christmas is coming.
Hobby Lobby may have some spherical plastic Christmas ornaments in varying sizes....

Has the X wing flown single stage yet?
 
They were putting out Christmas stuff in my local Hobby Lobby this past weekend.

Your Tie Fighter design is very cool!

-Bob
 
lakeroadster said:
Spent some time today making a CAD model of a rocket heavily influenced by the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter. Also borrows from the Centuri Rocket Times X-Wing Fighter Design contest, circa 1977.

Scaled to utilize an Estes Alpha nose cone and BT-50 body tube.. since the Alpha was the first model I ever built, back in the early 70's. Since this will be my first build since the mid 1980's I thought a tip of the hat to Estes was a good call.

I'm thinking US Army Olive Green paint and stenciling...

I thought about an Honest John Nose Cone, flattened in the line of sight from the cockpit. But I'm wondering if that would drive the rocket in the opposite direction?

You're thoughts / comments / advice are always welcome.

John

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