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Hello good people- managed to get my grips on about 75% of an old 1284 Estes Shuttle but I'm missing a few things. I've reached out to Estes but no reply yet. Best I can tell, from most important to least, I'm missing the two side body tubes for the big booster, 2 card stock pieces that have...

Moving slowly but making progress. Cut the fin slots now and after sanding did another thin layer of wood filler on all the fins and more sanding since this photo. I used the wrap for the fin slots but it didn't seem to overlap perfectly so to be sure, I grabbed a soft tape measure and wrapped...

Making some progress this weekend, but earlier last week I thought I would browse Estes products to use my 15% off birthday coupon. Turns out there was an even better coupon that gave 30% off everything and free shipping at $100 so I grabbed the new bulk pack of 8 F15-4's, a pack of E12's and...

Clearly my favorite rocket of all time is the old Estes Super Vega. I also own and have flown the Q-Modeling Vega with springs in the landing pods, now retired. I must also admit I spent way too much time and money years ago on a high power scratch Vega that sheared all the fins off just before...

I'm just about 20 minutes from the Triploi Idaho Swan Falls Launch Site so I hope to get this one in the air at the next launch in October.

Took a quick break in 2013 to focus on the career and other distractions as well as finish raising 4 kids and so found a couple days recently to finish the old Cosmodrome Nike Smoke. Fairly happy with it and might even sleep tonight knowing the I applied the vinyl decals somewhat straight on...

Almost forgot I have one almost finished from many years ago. 29mm motor mount with a giant balsa cone, think it was a LOC Precision kit, I'll have to look it over and get it finished this year, awesome bird. G-80 sounds great.

Ok, back it after nearly 10 years, ouch. Does anyone know what nose cone I need for the upscaled 2.6 inch Nike-X? Making a 2.6 inch Citation Patriot and have same question as well, most of the vendors I used in the past are gone now, thanks for any help.

Thanks to Bad Boy Rocketry who cut ttw 2.6" scale ply fins and rings and sent along with their upgraded clone Super Vega, yahoo!

Not wishing to hi-jack the thread here but I just noticed my upscaled Patriot Vinyl Decals are for a 2.6" diameter and not 3" inch like the Big Red Max. Is there someone or a site with 2.6" scale birch fins? Mostly I just need the 2.6 scale birch ttw fins really as I have the tubes and centering...

Wow, I haven't logged in here for maybe 10 years or so but so happy to be back. Just got my Pro Series Der Big Red Max and as expected I see all the discussion about upgrading the fins and centering rings and rightfully so. I remember as a teenager 40 years ago cursing about spending my $10...

I tested adding an internal fillet with Elmer's Titebond II yellow glue before moving on to the others which seemed to go fairly well. Added the other fins using Titebond on the internal fin tabs and some thick super glue on the root edge of the fins contacting the plastic tail cone. Estes...

I wish I had documented my revisions as I went through one of these quickly realizing that having to wrap the parachute around the motor mount which then rear ejects means you might get one flight before the whole thing is trashed. Kudos to Estes customer support as when I called them and...

The next issue with the V2 is how to apply nice glue fillets to the inside of the ttw fin tabs. In this case, you can't leave the bottom motor mount ring out to apply fillets through the bottom because the ring itself has to insert from the top of the cone and is much bigger than the bottom of...

OK, think I'm far enough along in the build to post some pix and info. The first hurdle has been deciding what glue to use at the fillets where the balsa fins meet the plastic cone. But before that I did some fin prep by applying a thinned layer of Elmer's wood filler to each die cut fin...

Moving along on this build now, ready for the first fillet of balsa to plastic. I have both 30 minute epoxy and some thick CA. I was originally thinking I would need a fairly thick fillet there at the joint between the plastic cone and the balsa but I'm able to make a fairly thick fillet inside...

Thanks guys, guess I'll be leaning toward an epoxy over traditional glues. I'm fresh out of the micro balloons I think but will check for those, otherwise, I'll be sanding the Holy Hannah out of the epoxy to avoid future yellowing.

Not much action from the mid-power thread for this one. I'm building that Estes V2 which has the TTW balsa fins and the plastic tail cone. I'm wondering what you guys would recommend for the fillets where the balsa meets the plastic tail cone. Would need to be sandable and paintable and offer...

Hi folks, working on the Estes V2 with the balsa through the wall fins. The four fins go through a plastic tail cone before getting glued to the motor mount tube. Wondering what you guys would suggest to use for the fillets where the balsa fins meet the plastic tail cone of the V2? These fillets...

No, this was an upgrade made unofficially by some one else. They used to show up on Evilbay from time to time. I like the balsa fins just fine but it would be cool to try this kit.