Ez2cDave
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AND I SCORE ONE!!! Perhaps the *VERY* same kit I found in Tammie's Hobbies all those years ago.
Is that nose cone made with Polyester Resin, looking at the color ?
Dave F.
AND I SCORE ONE!!! Perhaps the *VERY* same kit I found in Tammie's Hobbies all those years ago.
Yes that NC is poly.
It's in Oregon... I'm in China... You're gonna have to wait just like I am.TRF demands a build thread!!!!
Ok... So, this brings me to questions I should direct @Binder Design... How many of these kits were made by Mike? And of those, how many used the fiberglass nosecone, the RWW nosecone, or even the ACE nosecone.
How many of the 4 inch Hones Johns were produced. I have one that I fly on rare occasions. The fiberglass tail cones, nose cones and vacuform spin nozzles were awesome.I only kitted one as a favor to someone that really wanted one. I sent him the cone from my prototype and he reshaped it. The crashed one that you head about was my prototype that used a 4X38mm mount. I did one flight with two 38mm research motors lit on the pad and airstarting two in flight. The airstarts never lit, but it flew and recovered fine. There is a grainy photo in this thread somewhere that shows this flight on two of my blue motors.
I tried the same flight profile again and only one motor lit on the pad so it barely had enough thrust to clear the rail before it keeled over and crashed and burned in the Brothers sage. At that point I decided not to re-release it as a cluster, but kept it on the drawing board. Down the road I just abandoned the whole idea when I discontinued our only other scale kit, the Iris due to very low demand. I checked how many Iris kit we sold and it was one kit about every three years, so that didn't motivate me to pursue the Exocet any further considering I'd need to make a new nosecone mold for it.
And that's the way it was.
Perhaps I need a "Go Fund Me" to get the rocket here and fund the materials that I can't seem to source locally (wood hardener, primer paint, etc.). I know that China must have them, but my searches for them have been fruitless, and the people I've asked to help me haven't been able to turn up anything either.For what it's worth: the Exocet is way cooler than the Iris. And what that statement actually is worth is exactly nothing, because I only do LPR anyway.
In any case, I do look forward to an eventual build thread. We should have an over/under contest about when K'Tesh is actually going to get around to starting.
I only kitted one as a favor to someone that really wanted one. I sent him the cone from my prototype and he reshaped it. The crashed one that you head about was my prototype that used a 4X38mm mount. I did one flight with two 38mm research motors lit on the pad and airstarting two in flight. The airstarts never lit, but it flew and recovered fine. There is a grainy photo in this thread somewhere that shows this flight on two of my blue motors.
I tried the same flight profile again and only one motor lit on the pad so it barely had enough thrust to clear the rail before it keeled over and crashed and burned in the Brothers sage. At that point I decided not to re-release it as a cluster, but kept it on the drawing board. Down the road I just abandoned the whole idea when I discontinued our only other scale kit, the Iris due to very low demand. I checked how many Iris kit we sold and it was one kit about every three years, so that didn't motivate me to pursue the Exocet any further considering I'd need to make a new nosecone mold for it.
And that's the way it was.
For what it's worth: the Exocet is way cooler than the Iris. And what that statement actually is worth is exactly nothing, because I only do LPR anyway.
How many of the 4 inch Hones Johns were produced. I have one that I fly on rare occasions. The fiberglass tail cones, nose cones and vacuform spin nozzles were awesome.
Totally understood. It's incredibly easy to have enthusiasm for a kit before it comes time to take out your wallet.In my early days of owning Binder Design I ended up chasing my tail a lot. Human nature being what it is, people would get excited about a freshly built prototype out for a flight test, but if I said I had 20 of them kitted in the back of my car people would look at their feet and slunk away. I now choose very carefully where to expend my energy because I'm not getting any younger.
Mine is still racked in the basement, still in the filler/finish stage due to a combination of work and 4 years of health issues. But things are looking up so I may get back to it soon.
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A few... It's an open bag, partial build (the body tube was slotted by the previous owner, not by Scott).Sweet acquisition!
How many bars of "Gold Pressed Latinum" did that set you back?
That would be me, and I certainly appreciate it Mike!I only kitted one as a favor to someone that really wanted one.
Yes it is. A 6" dia. Hangar-11 kit: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/finally-done-hangar-11-6-dia-x-15.143762/Is that a X-15 on the bottom?
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