Yesterday I went to a library in the next county over to use their laser cutter to make parts for Слава Україні (Slova Ukraini, "Glory to Ukraine"). Fins, bulkhead for the nose cone base, vented bulkheads for a baffle, centering rings, launch lug standoffs, and a few extras.
The software at the library is weird and resulted in the laser going over all the lines twice, so there are smoke stains on the pieces and the edge char is extra dark. Oh well, no big deal.
@Gary Goncher has 3D printed me an onion top nose cone, and @kenstarr is making me a blue and yellow parachute. I am super grateful to both of them, and to be part of such a wonderful community.
It was late when I got home, but I wanted to make at least a token start on building, so I sanded the rim of one of the baffle plates until it fit nicely into one end of the coupler it will be glued into.
The rocket will be two sections of BT-80, 15" each if I remember right. The upper section will be blue and the lower yellow. The fins yellow with the trident in black as decals on both sides, so eight fin trident decals in all. The rocket name, both in Cyrilic and Latin scripts will be vertical on the sides, also in black. The nose cone will be verdigris green with brass leaf decorations to resemble (not faithfully reproduce) the upper part of the central dome of St. Andrew's Orthodox Church in Kiev.
Here are what the fins look like against the body tube, and the nose cone in a tube.
I hope to get the structure finished and maybe start painting this weekend. I'll have acquire the green paint and some high build primer for the nose cone. I should have the blue if it's still OK in the can, and I don't know about the yellow.
Here we go.
The software at the library is weird and resulted in the laser going over all the lines twice, so there are smoke stains on the pieces and the edge char is extra dark. Oh well, no big deal.
@Gary Goncher has 3D printed me an onion top nose cone, and @kenstarr is making me a blue and yellow parachute. I am super grateful to both of them, and to be part of such a wonderful community.
It was late when I got home, but I wanted to make at least a token start on building, so I sanded the rim of one of the baffle plates until it fit nicely into one end of the coupler it will be glued into.
The rocket will be two sections of BT-80, 15" each if I remember right. The upper section will be blue and the lower yellow. The fins yellow with the trident in black as decals on both sides, so eight fin trident decals in all. The rocket name, both in Cyrilic and Latin scripts will be vertical on the sides, also in black. The nose cone will be verdigris green with brass leaf decorations to resemble (not faithfully reproduce) the upper part of the central dome of St. Andrew's Orthodox Church in Kiev.
Here are what the fins look like against the body tube, and the nose cone in a tube.
I hope to get the structure finished and maybe start painting this weekend. I'll have acquire the green paint and some high build primer for the nose cone. I should have the blue if it's still OK in the can, and I don't know about the yellow.
Here we go.