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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...

I am sure there is a thread out there somewhere. I need a guaranteed mile-high club entry on a low budget. LOC Nuke pro maxx sims out at 5700+ on H45-10 LOC Vulcanite sims out at 7500+ on I132-15. EMPHASIS ON LOW BUDGET. I am going to borrow the pico altimeter and a chirper. I have to...

someone has certainly tried to build an AP multi-stage before. This post could easily go in the scratch built (where I thrive), but I need to find an AP motor that has no delay. I want to build a AP/AP multi-stage with commercially available motors. Example : F20-0 to F20-4. NO way am I...

This is my FA/18 concept bird, at least the start. The BT is a paper towel tube, with another paper towel tube with a 1/4" slot to fit inside the other, and some yellow glue. I've built dozens of rox this way. The LL is going to be on the 90 degrees from the wings. I have no idea if this...

I was looking at sending a square one gallon water container upstairs, but I remembered I tried this "same water brand" in the liter size, and the fins just rip off. No glue sticks to commercial plastic containers, not epoxy or Testors or CA (it sticks, but it is so brittle it breaks). I...

a few pix of butter box. a-10 engine, home rolled MMT out of a filing folder, the X stiffener out of corro cardboard. fins are going to go thru the sides to the MMT, so even on this tiny thing, mr. motor tries to stay in the roc vs. punching out the nose cone. Nose cone, I put a few post...

So far, both my triangular and square "scratch" or "odd rox" haven't worked so great. Beaut lifts, but 100 to 150 ft off the ground, a giant screw and they hit dirt before reco. . . . There ain't no way to SIM these. My guesses : 1) bunches more of nose cone weight. 2) slight...

Here's where we start. I'm going to cut the bottom out of the box, use the pieces to put 45 degree supports across the outer bottle holders. Edge off some of the handle, and slot a tube over the inner parts. This is one time I'd like a manufactured BT-80 tube, however, rolling my own BT is...

I took the idea from my club prez, try and reduce the weight of the roc by peeling off outer layers of cardboard tube. First, seems easy, IT IS NOT, even with Dr X helping. Very labor instensive, but huh, what did I pay for this tube ? Second, get where you think you would like to be, and...

My dear bride has a horrendous commute, I do the cooking for her supper. Went thru the last of the crackers for fried chicken, the last of the butter for spuds. Hum, another box roc. Getting the geometry of the cone and the transition ought to be fairly easy. Major c-squares (not...

The contact solution bottle and KeyLight V2.0. The idea here with the bottle is a rear ejection. Motor mount hole, and ejection pressure holes in the top to punch off the bottom end. The bottle has a bottom piece that is sort of tough to pop off, coupons inside. I sanded it down for easy...

as promised, the square BT, not a dime spent but glue. Fins are going to be out of the same box, layer 2 sides together, set something heavy on them for a while. NC, easy piece of cake. I think the fins are going to have to go on the flat side, vs the corners. At least a 4" cone, 6" or more...

Up from So. Texas to Kansas city for a "club" launch over Labor day weekend. VP ran the camera (me) while Prez hit GO. AND I GOT SOME EXCELLENT PIX. 95% of what I flew was scratchers. Pix in order : 1) Coral Snake III on 2 x E9-4. Beaut flight. a mailing tube. No investment, using...

spacecowboy REALLY outdoes hisself this time. I know non-round tubes, built, flown, this is just too funny. my triangle tube, the side of the box of a 12-er. (for those who don't know, Shiner is a Bravarian beer, brewed about 60 miles south of Austin, Tx) I cut slight slots on the...

I'm sure someone else has thought about this, especially during summer time when it is around 100 degrees and a sno-cone. How difficult could it be to get those sno-cone cups, yellow glue up 2,3,4,5 of them for a NC ???? The coupler out of rolled up Vanilla file folder and yellow glue...

I'm wondering does anybody build something you know won't come back ???? I got a wild hair, tubing from my bride's school, and started work with leftover fin material, thinking an E9 is putting this joker into orbit. And then I see I have completely nailed straight fins without an...