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My camera doesn't zoom any closer than this. With a C6-3 it had a nice flight, slow and straight. It came down really slow on an 18" parachute, and had no damage. :)

I added a little over 1/4 ounce of clay to the nose. With a C6-3 the center of gravity was then at the middle of the black band.

Thanks. :)

Almost ready to fly. I still want to put a few light coats of clear on it when it is warm enough outside.

The inside tube is 273 mm long. An 18 mm engine mount extends a few mm further, and the engine will be a few mm below the 4 exhaust cones.

Because I changed the fins, the original lower corrugated wrap would not look right. It has blue areas that would have been covered by the fin tabs, but I am not using fin tabs. I also wanted something taller, to match the height of the enlarged fins. I don't know my way around graphics...

The original fins looked too small to make the rocket stable. I kept the shape the same, but doubled the perimeter measurements. The new fins were cut from balsa, then papered to look similar to the original fins. I papered them the same way it was done in a Quest X-30 kit I have been building...

The centering rings trimmed, and a shoulder for the nose, made from a piece of BT-55 cut to fit inside another BT-55.

A BT-55 was the biggest tube that would fit through the capsule, so I am using that through the whole center. For the centering rings on the ends, I cut most of the BT-55 sized hole through the cardstock, then centered the parts over that hole. when the glue dried, I cut around the outside, and...

There are 2 versions, with different colors. I chose the black and white parts.

I found this rocket on Ton Noteboon's website a while ago. He named it Pablo for a young modeler who asked him to make a model that would be easier for a beginner to build. I have seen many great cardstock models I want to convert to flying models. Pablo seemed like a good model for me to start...

In the gallery section, there are only 3 TLP kits listed. If more kits were listed, we might see more pictures. Here is my 1.6 Phoenix.

A few flights after these pictures were taken, it had a hard landing that cracked up the nose, so I need to rebuild the top half of the rocket.

After looking at a Viking IV, I built this from a Super Neon XL kit. the inside of the tube fins have holographic paper from a craft store.

I finished a SpaceshipOne today.

Thanks. Search "Excelsior Rocketry" for the website. I don't know how to post links.

I took this picture at Red Glare, I think it was Fall 2012. I don't know who the rocket belongs to, but it was the coolest flight up to that point in the day.

This one is a BT-60. The nose is from Semroc, and the decals from Excelsior. The decals are scaled to a BT-60, but I think I made the fins a little too big. The picture is at MDRA.

I made one of the downscales using a BT-20 and paper wrap. I found it on The Rocketry Blog, under the Ultimate Paper Rocket Guide, and click on Bob Harrington's Mini Rocket Clones. I would add a link, but I am barely computer literate.:confused: