Dean B
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My wife bought me this kit from Apogee for Fathers' Day last year. It's just now finished - it's been a slow building year.
I was really attracted to this Shrox design. The kit went together pretty well with a few exceptions. I papered the fins due to the poor-quality balsa - there were open areas in the grain that compromised their strength, I felt. My main complaint was that the nose cone did not fit well in the body tube. The NC's shoulder actually has a tapered shape that lets is wobble too much. That, and since my 2-year-old kind of squished the top end of the BT, required some reinforcement and fitting. I cut down a piece of BT-80, glued it into the top end of the BT, and sanded it to fit the tapered NC.
The rocket is finished with Rustoleum Pewter Gray enamel, with Gloss Black on the tip of the NC. I used an o-ring to make the separation line, masking below it (an idea I got from the forum). The graphics are peel-and-stick, which was a disappointment. I'm looking forward to flying it- D-12s up to E-20s, maybe. Except for its size, the Stone Breaker builds more like LP than MP.
I was really attracted to this Shrox design. The kit went together pretty well with a few exceptions. I papered the fins due to the poor-quality balsa - there were open areas in the grain that compromised their strength, I felt. My main complaint was that the nose cone did not fit well in the body tube. The NC's shoulder actually has a tapered shape that lets is wobble too much. That, and since my 2-year-old kind of squished the top end of the BT, required some reinforcement and fitting. I cut down a piece of BT-80, glued it into the top end of the BT, and sanded it to fit the tapered NC.
The rocket is finished with Rustoleum Pewter Gray enamel, with Gloss Black on the tip of the NC. I used an o-ring to make the separation line, masking below it (an idea I got from the forum). The graphics are peel-and-stick, which was a disappointment. I'm looking forward to flying it- D-12s up to E-20s, maybe. Except for its size, the Stone Breaker builds more like LP than MP.
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