What Rockets are you working on :)

Since Christmas I have been on the mood to build some new rockets. These rockets include some of the rockets that I got from Secret Santas, Christmas & Birthday Gifts, and some I have purchases, and two submitted for review. Unless there is good weather, primer and painting will have to wait until he spring.

So since Christmas I have built the following:

Finished and Ready to Fly
2 Quest Astra III's
Alpha III 60th Anniversary Edition (SS)
Mini "A" Heli (I wanted to shot it off today but its a bit breezy outside)
Gryphon (Just need to trim the glider)
Tigres (Very nice rocket that I picked up at Hobby Lobby)

Ready for Primer and Paint
Conquest
Executioner
Expedition

Tried to start but waiting on replacement tubes
Mercury Redstone (This seems to be the fruitcake of rockets for me because I gotten several as gifts. I sold all but one cause I want to build it)
STM-012
Twin Factor

I also have several rockets that I have built in the past, primered but never painted.
Minie Magg (Flown once on a custom made sparky H motor)
Viper IV
Leviathan
Vulcanite H76

Got a bunch of other unfinished rockets in a big box downstairs that I started before I moved, I should finish those but some of them are damaged beyond repair

Ready for primer and paint:
MD 24mm build
Mach 1 - BT60 Black Hole
Wildman - Wild Child
Mach 1 - BT50 Boost

Ready for epoxy:
3" Punisher
Darkstar Jr and Mini

Need to solder:
Eggtimer Classic
Quark
Eggfinder Mini and LCD Rx

Madcow Mini Tomach. Dual deploy, 29mm MMT
PML Cirrus minimum diameter 38
Aerotech MEGA initiator.....29-54...

FYI: Similar active thread here: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/post-a-photo-of-your-recently-completed-project-s.156967/ (started as "completed projects" but expanded to "builds in progress")

Astrobee 500 model:
jcrocket.com/astrobee500.shtml

An FSI EOS and Viking II.

JohnCoker said:

Astrobee 500 model:
jcrocket.com/astrobee500.shtml

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Your rocket builds are always amazing. I love how you engineer solutions and build outstanding rockets using techniques that we all can learn from. Thanks for sharing.

On the bench and in progress. I put a pause on rocketry a while back and clearly was in the throes of learning how to deal with RC gliders. With the loss of the local HP field in Berwick, ME maybe it's time to focus on the gliders in place of the HP rockets. Maybe the field owners will change their minds (probably not). Looks like any HP launches I have this year will be out of VT.

Wildman Punisher 3". The original one - it's been on the bench for many years! I am struggling with fitting the coupler into the nose cone for the HED deployment. It seems that no matter how much i sand it remains very tight (to the point where I sometimes need to heat up the plastic cone with a shot of hot air from a heat gun). Once I figure this out it's down to building the HED and installing the fins.

Estes Saturn V - 29mmt in the main tube. I am deciding on what I want to do next. Build the stock fins, use some recovered Moldin' Oldies fins or picking up some 3d printed ones.

Scratch built rocket boosted glider. The glider has been built for 4 years. I have not been able to figure out a good way to attach the power pod that I like. I started working on a 3d print solution but gave up on it and have not picked it up since then. I was toying with making it RC-capable but I seem to have lost my interest in RC for now.

SR71 blackbird rocket glider. One of the original from Dynasoar. The foam is all connected, the servos are tacked in place along with a receiver. I just need to finish the silly thing and maybe give it a go.

Ecee Thunder rocket glider. I love that someone has created a thread with the original templates and everything for this. I have been working on a RC solution for this but stopped work on it a while back because I was not sure what to do next. It just sits there, getting dusty stuck between a stock build and a full RC build. I just have not decided which.

Filled, ready for primer: A bunch
Primered, ready for paint: Another bunch.
Ready for epoxy: MAC Black Fly.
Just started: Estes Nightwing, cardstock Little Joe.

I have been refurbing a 31 year old LOC IV. Updated to 1010 rail buttons, installed a eye bolt in the forward bulkhead to attach the updated shock cord. It will have motor retention and I have repaired airframe damage. It also got a new paint job. This is actually my wife's rocket she confirmed by on in 1989.