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I'm in at Fleet Captain level -- wishing you all the best on this project! I've admired your designs for a long while.

My condolences and prayers for Sheryl and the family. I'm another who never had the chance to meet them face-to-face, but had a number of really lovely interactions with them through my orders with Semroc. Our hobby, and the broader world, are diminished by his loss.

To clarify: they are considering doing so; it doesn't sound like the decision has been made, at this point. https://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html

It's still there. It was sold last year, and it took a little while for the new owner to get things up and running, but it's certainly still there. Main page: https://www.rocketreviews.com/ Reviews page: https://www.rocketreviews.com/rocket-kit-reviews.html I just went to both of these URLs...

Wow. That's absolutely gorgeous. Great job!

I'm impressed that you took on the rebuild. I wonder if having the ball split open wasn't a blessing in disguise -- it might've let you get a better seal at the junction of the two tubes than you would have otherwise been able to achieve. Fingers crossed!

Those are awesome! I might suggest taking them to a professional framer, just to see what it would take to have some sort of display framing done. It wouldn't be cheap, but for something that has both a high degree of personal / sentimental value, as well as a high monetary value, it could...

"'39", by Queen, off of the "A Night at the Opera" album. Written by guitarist Brian May (who studied astrophysics in college, and now holds a PhD in the field), it's about a group of space explorers who board a spaceship for a near-lightspeed trip. They return to Earth a hundred years later...

This is cool as heck. I recognized nearly all of the models. Thanks for sharing!!

That was my thought, as well...I'd suggest looking into the specific requirements of the toy drive with which you'd be working. I love the idea in theory, but it could be a bit challenging in practice.

That's either one small turkey, or one stretchy cockatoo. ;)

I've actively avoided getting into anything other than LPR during my return to rocketry. Due to that, it's remained a relatively inexpensive hobby for me...leaving me to be able to spend money instead on my more expensive hobbies (role-playing games and guitars...)

I'm certain there's a story behind what a 7-year-old Jim Flis was doing walking through a cemetery... In the mid-1970s, my father and my uncle bought a hardware store which had been in business for decades. There was all sorts of random stuff in the basement, things which hadn't been sold in...

The only time I can ever remember *not* having a turkey for Thanksgiving was about 6 years ago, when a friend of my mother-in-law managed to convince her that a "capon" was just a small turkey (and not a castrated male chicken). It only took a few bites to convince us -- "this isn't turkey --...

Likewise. I'd never heard anyone pronounce it the other way.

I was always interested in space exploration -- I was 4 years old for Apollo 11, and remember watching the telecasts of the mission (and the other Apollo missions). At that time, Gulf gas stations were giving out cardboard punch-out models of the LEM -- I had three of them (one made by my...

Roger, the new owner, made a post about the topic a couple of weeks ago: https://www.rocketreviews.com/featured/2010-10-10-Update.shtml

Here are a couple of pictures of mine. This is from an original EAC kit, which I won on eBay a few years ago, but only got around to building this summer. Decals are courtesy of Sandman / Excelsior.

I have plenty of unbuilt kits to get me through the winter. I'll probably also try to rebuild my clone of the 13mm Estes Condor (the rocket portion of it crashed a few years ago, and I need to build a new one). Hoping to get in a few more launches this fall before the weather completely goes...

Looks like there's only one up on eBay at the moment: https://cgi.ebay.com/ESTES-2086-TOMCAT-opened-plastic-bag-kit-/260677264315?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb19363bb It's an opened bag, but, at least according to the seller, the only things missing are the body tubes (which would...