DynaSoar
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Just trying to get all the rest of the pictures up since I finally figured out how to do it without shrinking things to invisibility.
Left to right,
AT Wart Hog. I really like the riveted fins. No tube filling: I wanted a real industrial strength look, and used only one thin gloss coat to keep them visible. The nose is painted with Rustoleum gold metal finish. This stuff comes out much easier than the aluminum and chrome finished. I glued the strakes on upside down, open side of the channel out. Very hard core. Makes me want to play heavy metal music.
AT IQSY Tomahawk. Purchased built but refinished. Keeping the rivet panels masked was no mean feat.
MPC Nike Patriot. OK, not a MPR bird. But I really like the MPC kits with the fin can. I'm looking hard for the Nike Smoke. Plus, this model inspired the.....
I don't know what to call it. The nose and payload section were from some plastic helicopter recovery thing that came partly (dis)assembled in a pile of parts I bought. Definitely not Estes, because it didn't fit the transition. I had to beef it up and glue the tube down over it a ways. The main tube is BT60 with a tail cone cut from a PNC60 cone, and a 24mm * 3.75" (E size) MMT. The fins came with the same pile of parts, and are hollow, two piece, snap-togther things that I frankly don't know if they were intended to fly or belong to a static model. But, glued through slots on the tail cone, fly they do. 9 ounces loaded with an E9. It definitely rocks for spare parts and junk.
Left to right,
AT Wart Hog. I really like the riveted fins. No tube filling: I wanted a real industrial strength look, and used only one thin gloss coat to keep them visible. The nose is painted with Rustoleum gold metal finish. This stuff comes out much easier than the aluminum and chrome finished. I glued the strakes on upside down, open side of the channel out. Very hard core. Makes me want to play heavy metal music.
AT IQSY Tomahawk. Purchased built but refinished. Keeping the rivet panels masked was no mean feat.
MPC Nike Patriot. OK, not a MPR bird. But I really like the MPC kits with the fin can. I'm looking hard for the Nike Smoke. Plus, this model inspired the.....
I don't know what to call it. The nose and payload section were from some plastic helicopter recovery thing that came partly (dis)assembled in a pile of parts I bought. Definitely not Estes, because it didn't fit the transition. I had to beef it up and glue the tube down over it a ways. The main tube is BT60 with a tail cone cut from a PNC60 cone, and a 24mm * 3.75" (E size) MMT. The fins came with the same pile of parts, and are hollow, two piece, snap-togther things that I frankly don't know if they were intended to fly or belong to a static model. But, glued through slots on the tail cone, fly they do. 9 ounces loaded with an E9. It definitely rocks for spare parts and junk.