luke strawwalker
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I've bought several kits from Dr. Zooch Rockets and they've all been well thought out and well executed. They are innovative and interesting and the materials are good quality, despite the 'off nominal' sourcing of some of them (IE trash bag parachutes, which sounds rather cheap but keeps kit costs down and they DO work quite well). The instructions are expertly illustrated and bring a bit of levity and fun to the building process with some biting wit carried over from Dr. Zooch Rockets owner Wes Oleszewski's cartoon strip "the Program", featuring the ant scientist leading "the Program" Dr. Zooch. I enjoy the humor in the instructions.
The Zooch Rockets are also very good fliers. I have never had a bad flight with a Dr. Zooch Rocket. They are surprisingly good performers for their size, especially for 'ant scale' subjects which are usually heavy or draggy, as scalers tend to be. The are true SEMI-SCALE models, not 'true scale', so if you want exactly 112 rivets on joint seam 334 on page 1124 of the original vehicle blueprints, you might be disappointed. If you're looking for a good looking good flying kit, these are it.
The service is excellent and Dr. Zooch has always stood behind any problems I've had, even sending custom parts out when something was accidentally omitted from the kit. Usually a few extra parts are included, like reinforcing rings for the parachute, which is a nice bonus in case you mess up like I sometimes do.
The value of the kits is excellent. The prices are surprisingly low for such nice kits, and the material quality and innovative ideas that go into these kits just add to the bargain.
I highly recommend these kits as a satisfied customer. For those of you who are possibly returning to rocketry as a BAR, these are the kind of "builder's kits" that you remember from bygone days. For those of you advancing in the hobby and looking for something new beside plastic fin cans and three fins and a nose cone type rockets, these are it-- old school creative rockets using real (but easily learned, for the most part) rocket building skills.
Try em, you'll like em! Big thumbs up! OL JR
The Zooch Rockets are also very good fliers. I have never had a bad flight with a Dr. Zooch Rocket. They are surprisingly good performers for their size, especially for 'ant scale' subjects which are usually heavy or draggy, as scalers tend to be. The are true SEMI-SCALE models, not 'true scale', so if you want exactly 112 rivets on joint seam 334 on page 1124 of the original vehicle blueprints, you might be disappointed. If you're looking for a good looking good flying kit, these are it.
The service is excellent and Dr. Zooch has always stood behind any problems I've had, even sending custom parts out when something was accidentally omitted from the kit. Usually a few extra parts are included, like reinforcing rings for the parachute, which is a nice bonus in case you mess up like I sometimes do.
The value of the kits is excellent. The prices are surprisingly low for such nice kits, and the material quality and innovative ideas that go into these kits just add to the bargain.
I highly recommend these kits as a satisfied customer. For those of you who are possibly returning to rocketry as a BAR, these are the kind of "builder's kits" that you remember from bygone days. For those of you advancing in the hobby and looking for something new beside plastic fin cans and three fins and a nose cone type rockets, these are it-- old school creative rockets using real (but easily learned, for the most part) rocket building skills.
Try em, you'll like em! Big thumbs up! OL JR
