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After a few years of focusing on more conventional R/C aircraft, I am back and ready to do a few new r/c rocket gliders.
It is a little hard to find subjects that Frank has not already done an excellent job on modeling, but I have a few I want to do.
One is the proposed, but never built Mizuno Sinryu Type II rocket powered interceptor. It was being designed in Japan when the hostilities ended. It was intended to put up in the defense of Japan against the fleets of B-29s we were sending their way.
They designed a pretty sharp looking rocket interceptor. This is one I have wanted to do for a long time. It is not all that far off of being something like an Astro Blaster, being a swept wing canard.
Based on BT-80 tubing and the PNC-80K nose cone. Wing will be 9mm Depron with a little carbon added. Canard and tail will be 6mm Depron, with a touch of carbon where needed. Should be fairly ballistic on the reloadable E6, although it will have a fair amount of nose weight due to the short nose moment. Span is 28" and length is 21".
Still looking around on my garage/RC airplane storage facility and graveyard for a suitable canopy that would look OK on the model. Somewhere I have a Mitsubishi Zero canopy that might serve well, but it is hiding. Backup plan would be to carve it out of foam, spackle and paint it.
Will give it a minimal lightweight spray paint finish, in a suitable green over gray per the attached color profile, with some Rising Sun emblems from my vinyl cutter.
It is a little hard to find subjects that Frank has not already done an excellent job on modeling, but I have a few I want to do.
One is the proposed, but never built Mizuno Sinryu Type II rocket powered interceptor. It was being designed in Japan when the hostilities ended. It was intended to put up in the defense of Japan against the fleets of B-29s we were sending their way.
They designed a pretty sharp looking rocket interceptor. This is one I have wanted to do for a long time. It is not all that far off of being something like an Astro Blaster, being a swept wing canard.
Based on BT-80 tubing and the PNC-80K nose cone. Wing will be 9mm Depron with a little carbon added. Canard and tail will be 6mm Depron, with a touch of carbon where needed. Should be fairly ballistic on the reloadable E6, although it will have a fair amount of nose weight due to the short nose moment. Span is 28" and length is 21".
Still looking around on my garage/RC airplane storage facility and graveyard for a suitable canopy that would look OK on the model. Somewhere I have a Mitsubishi Zero canopy that might serve well, but it is hiding. Backup plan would be to carve it out of foam, spackle and paint it.
Will give it a minimal lightweight spray paint finish, in a suitable green over gray per the attached color profile, with some Rising Sun emblems from my vinyl cutter.
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