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120 views 100 views of the pic. in 24 hrs. Not one reply, yeah, nah, or otherwise. I won't be wasting my time on this forum anymore. Goodbye

This is Miss Onyx, Texas. Onyx, Texas is a very small town outside of Dripping Springs, Texas, oh say, where I live. This is a very good and sweet looking rocket, in the form of the Texas state flag. Forming the wave of the flag was too easy, gentle cuts through the blue masking tape, and...

very "cheap" launch lug material is the cardboard tubes that come with econojet motors for the copper-duds. A good application of yellow glue fillets on your LL, and these things are rock solid. Scratch/bash/whatever. The tiny red roc has the LL I referenced before, it is built out of 2...

This is my continuing lesson in how to ruin a perfect paint job. The base was a beautiful no run, no error, dark gray Painter's Choice by rustoleum. I decided it might be cool to try a paintbrush, so I put some paint on a piece of foil and proceeded to mess up the fins. Neat and unique...

Although not a complete failure, it was close. I tried it twice. Much too windy for one, and the bird, by specs is a really stretched and fattened FA/18, too many chicken fried steaks with cream gravy. I am going to try this next, a F-16, BT ID = 18mm, wings, all the stabilzers of the "real"...

This may seem ig-nert, but I took the Aspire SIM, and eliminated 1/2 the BT. SIM kept crashing on me. 3rd time, I'm on. The SIM file attached has this thing about to tickle 6000 ft. I am not going to be able to verify altitude, much less find the thing, and I am probably going to go from 4...

outta, I believe the errors can also be attributed to THIS. Use Krylon primer for Krylon paints. Use Rustoleum primer for Rustoleum paints. I thought I'd save a buck or two on time, Krylon primer that sat for several days. Hit it with Rusto paint, and it bubbled like water at 250...

I spent the day on the water skippering the keel boat sailboat for a centerboard sailor who has had his big boat out for the 5th time. Rots Ror Room to improve, both him and me. I drive the big boats a lot, let the owners play around on foredeck. RocketAl : I just about wrecked the truck on...

the real purists are going to point out that the Nike Smoke on the undercarriage is not a tactical device. I thought it was "funny", best Quest kit I ever bought, and I don't know how many of dozens of times I''ve flown it.

Basically the last step here, it needs some launch lugs. Turn some painting errors into something positive, like I said, I am getting just about tired of messing with it. The white ordinance paint got away from me, so, turn it into the famous condensation shots of the 18. Purists may...

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some pix of next to last steps of getting done with this thing. The paint job, I just got tired of dealing with it, used el-cheapo yellow masking tape, got some really good bleed. I don't even know if is going to fly. Finish up the ordinance, hit it with white paint, get a LL(s) on it, and...

She's got some almost final touches. Inlets, and an ordinance, probably not true to the "real" deal. Card stock for an external tank just wasn't working. I am going to build another version down the road.

Powder I worked at Vought, 1982-1989. Like I said, had I stayed there, I'd be pulling a retirement check now. One of my most memorable days was venturing out to the run-up shelters. A-7, cranking it to 50%. I knew these things eat people on carriers, I stayed about 100 yds away. Hands over...

Powder, Yes, Vought, my first job out of college, and coincidentally, my longest stint of employment - 7 years. Had I stayed there, I would be getting retirment paychecks now. As a young-un, I used to take the 64 Chevy to the end of the fence at NAS-Dallas, sit on the hood, lean against the...

akpilot specifically.... your web address is MO, my impression is the Boeing FA/18 assembly plant should be around Wichita, KS. HOME OF CESSNA, Beech< stearman and quite a few others NC question : I already addressed this, it is the NC off a Estes Stormacaster p.s NO need for pix. My...

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It got some more work today. . . .it's looking good. I am having difficulty with the external tank out of cardstock. the pod for it is there.