Been a bit, new build - Graylock

[MCriscione]

A full scratch build. (Except the nose one, I guess? , it's estes) Still debating the name. Alternate currently: strut your stuff
I'm thinking it's missing some decals.
It should fly OK on a D12-5.

Plus an estes astron sprint XL that got painted at the same time.

Hope to fly them this year.

Enjoy, M

 

[dhbarr]

USS Reinforcements
Gilded Cage
Truss Me

 

[BABAR]

USS Reinforcements
Gilded Cage
Truss Me

all good, but you saved the best for last!

i guess naming it “Brace for Impact” might be tempting fate a bit too much.

sort of like the story of “The Suicide King”
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/open-body-missile-build-for-my-level-2.24733/page-3jump to posts 64 and 88.

hope you get a great flight!

 

[BABAR]

Great design. Also like the paint job on what I think is an Estes Sprint XL?

 

[MCriscione]

BABAR, yes a sprint xl

Also, I finished paint on another custom today. Ejection is ducted through all three tubes, up into the uppermost. Need a name for this on too, I think.

 

[Bill S]

I really like those wild rear fins on the orange and white rocket. Way cool.

 

[neil_w]

That fin design is great, wish I had thought of it.

 

[MCriscione]

Thank you everyone for the compliments. They were all fun to build.

For all the comments on those orange and silver wings, I realized I hadn't gotten a great shot head on, so here you go.



I think it's placeholder / codename is Orange Julius.


Bonus

 

[Hobie1dog]

You have fine model building skills

 

[les]

What did you use to make those trusses?

 

[jqavins]

@dhbarr and @BABAR neat me to it, Truss Me is definitely the way to go. Unless you go with Trussed Me.

And both of those rockets are beautiful.

 

[MCriscione]

"Trussed Me" it is! Also, @les they're all just little bits of 3/32 square balsa. They rounded out a tiny bit, as the paint tends to pool on the flat face and be thin near the edges.