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A Spock rocket called "Sprocket"....

I tried a new technique (new to me, anyway) for finishing canopies on molded nose cones. The one below is on an Estes Xarconian Cruiser. After painting the entire rocket I masked off everything on the nose cone except the canopy, then I sprayed the following with an airbrush: Auto Air...

I painted this LOC Forte below using an airbrush and good old-fashioned Frisket film for painting masks. Structurally it is a basic LOC Forte kit with a few changes: I upgraded the standard elastic shock cord and attachments with an eye-bolt in the nose cone, a u-bolt in the forward centering...

I ordered a 4" fiberglass Nose Cone from the Rocketry Warehouse to scratch together a mid to high power upscale of an Estes Fat Boy. Thanks go to Dave "Green Jello" for telling me that Rocketry Warehouse has 4" Nose Cones. Scaling up from the original 2.6" diameter to 4" diameter meant a scale...

This LOC Forte has been upgraded with tubular nylon shock cord, eye-screw and u-bolt shock cord attachments, and rail buttons. I cut painting masks for the "48" and the "Lowe's" text from frisket film using a Silhouette Cameo. It has all been painted using acrylic airbrush paint.

I am just finishing up a LOC Forte. The build was a typical straight-forward LOC build with the following mods: I mounted plywood standoff blocks to the body to mount rail buttons, I added an eye-screw in the nose cone, I added a u-bolt to the forward centering ring, and I replaced the elastic...

About 4 years ago I built a steampunked ACME Spitfire pictured below on the left, and I wrote up the following build thread for it: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?9710-FlisKits-ACME-Spitfire-Steampunk-style&highlight=steampunk I have started building a second steampunk ACME...

Here is my Semroc version of the Astron Spaceman....

3rd Annual MASA Summer Regional Contest - June 4 and 5, 2010 Nowthen, Minnesota (NW Minneapolis/St Paul metro area) For all details, visit https://www.masa-rocketry.org/news/2011/2011-02.htm The Minnesota Amateur Spacemodeler Association ( MASA), NAR Section # 576 is pleased to invite...

This is a pretty cool design. I really like the unique cut-outs in the Fins. The kit comes with adhesive-backed reinforcing paper to cover the Fins and all the decals....

I was going to originally paint this the colors on the card art, but instead I decided to paint it as a flying tribute to Tim Melody, who owned Off We Go Rocketry and passed away in October. I sprayed some metallic silver and gold on the ring, then after masking his name, sprayed blue on the...

Just made the first flights on this one today....

I bought my first Red River Rocketry (www.redriverrocketry.com) kit, the Centennial, at NARAM this summer. This is a unique kit in that it has five fins and a split ring fin. John Dyer had the NARAM display model painted red, yellow, blue and white, and when viewed from the back end, resembled...

The older two-stage 18mm version.....

This one is the mid-power version... Build thread: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=13198

Semroc Saturn 1B built for the Apollo 7 40th Anniversary celebration.... .

I recently put together a build thread on the Sirius Rocketry's Mid-Power Interrogator (https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=13198). That was my first Sirius kit, and it is an amazing rocket to build and fly. Now I am just starting my second Sirius kit, the new Deimos! So far I have...

I was first introduced to Sirius Rocketry (www.siriusrocketry.com) when I met David and Evie Miller at NARCON 2007. I fell in love with their Saturn V, and it has been on my wish list ever since. But in the mean time, I purchased and built my first Sirius kit - the Interrogator. Sirius makes...

Does anyone know of a source for thrust curve data (not the curves themselves, but the actual time v thrust data used to generate the curves)? I know that Thrustcurve.org has a lot of it, but they don't always have the actual data to generate curves (for example, an H180W). I want to be able...

I have a few rockets that are ready for shock cord replacements, like a Fat Boy with a rubber shock cord mounted with the typical trifold piece of paper. The entire inside of the body tube is blackened from repeated ejection charges. I was thinking of sanding an area inside the body tube to...