Nick Hutton
Well-Known Member
Another of my clone kits from Toby. This will be my first 38mm build. He’s pretty much supplied me with everything save glue and paint. Being in Australia, decals were going to be a problem, but Toby convinced me that Stickershock had fast turnaround and indeed I ordered them and had them sent to Toby and they arrived in a couple of days to be included in my package.
The kit had 4 sets of the fins, I’ve only displayed one as I forgot to take a before photo prior to flying the fin sandwich.
Planning to do most of the build with Titebond III again. One question for all those who have already completed this kit. I’m not going to bevel the fins. I want this to be a low flying, high drag rocket. Do I need to reinforce the leading edge? I’m planning to sand it smooth, but in a couple of spots the glue clearly hasn’t come right to the edge. I was thinking of wicking Cyanoacrylate into the 3 fin edges as a minimum, but also wondered about a fold over of fibreglass.
The kit had 4 sets of the fins, I’ve only displayed one as I forgot to take a before photo prior to flying the fin sandwich.
Planning to do most of the build with Titebond III again. One question for all those who have already completed this kit. I’m not going to bevel the fins. I want this to be a low flying, high drag rocket. Do I need to reinforce the leading edge? I’m planning to sand it smooth, but in a couple of spots the glue clearly hasn’t come right to the edge. I was thinking of wicking Cyanoacrylate into the 3 fin edges as a minimum, but also wondered about a fold over of fibreglass.