...on a kind of lazy, rainy day (Here, anyway).
Now, before we even get started let me say I'm certainly not pickin' on anybody! I'm MUCH worse about this kind of thing than most...
How often have you opened up someone's latest kit build thread and read something like:
"It was built pretty much stock except that the shock cord was replaced by kevlar secured to the motor mount, which I upgraded to 29mm."
"I remade the fins from plywood because I like flying bigger motors and wasn't sure the balsa would stand up to an H-220. " (By the way, the inevitable reply here is "Balsa should be fine if you paper them. I use Avery labels for mine", or suchlike, at which point the thread deteriorates into a ten post treatise on fin papering)
"I really like the look of the stock nose cone, but my Alti-Czech mini wouldn't quite fit, so I got one that was a bit longer from Large Jump rocketry. I also ordered some mini rail buttons while I was at it."
"I've got an 18" Top Phlite micro-mil that I'll bring it down with. I don't really like plastic chutes."
"Not sure if I'll paint it like the face card or not..."
If I've done the math right, the total number of kit parts that will fly on this bird is, lessee...
(mumble, mumble, carry the 3, mumble)
One. The tube...
As I said, I am worse about this kind of thing than most folks, though I have to say I'm getting a bit better; My LOC Nike Zeus actually uses the kit tube, motor mount (only slightly modified) and the main fins (heavily modified)!
My analyst said that was some good progress and let me take an extra sucker.
Like I said, not pickin on anybody, just something that made me chuckle (the observation, not the extra sucker).
With that said and no more excuses, I must go sand now...
Now, before we even get started let me say I'm certainly not pickin' on anybody! I'm MUCH worse about this kind of thing than most...
How often have you opened up someone's latest kit build thread and read something like:
"It was built pretty much stock except that the shock cord was replaced by kevlar secured to the motor mount, which I upgraded to 29mm."
"I remade the fins from plywood because I like flying bigger motors and wasn't sure the balsa would stand up to an H-220. " (By the way, the inevitable reply here is "Balsa should be fine if you paper them. I use Avery labels for mine", or suchlike, at which point the thread deteriorates into a ten post treatise on fin papering)
"I really like the look of the stock nose cone, but my Alti-Czech mini wouldn't quite fit, so I got one that was a bit longer from Large Jump rocketry. I also ordered some mini rail buttons while I was at it."
"I've got an 18" Top Phlite micro-mil that I'll bring it down with. I don't really like plastic chutes."
"Not sure if I'll paint it like the face card or not..."
If I've done the math right, the total number of kit parts that will fly on this bird is, lessee...
(mumble, mumble, carry the 3, mumble)
One. The tube...
As I said, I am worse about this kind of thing than most folks, though I have to say I'm getting a bit better; My LOC Nike Zeus actually uses the kit tube, motor mount (only slightly modified) and the main fins (heavily modified)!
My analyst said that was some good progress and let me take an extra sucker.
Like I said, not pickin on anybody, just something that made me chuckle (the observation, not the extra sucker).
With that said and no more excuses, I must go sand now...