Need help identifying a Kit

[mhanna]

While walking through the forest looking for my Estes Sahara, (which I found at the top of a big tree as usual), I came across a very waterlogged kit of what appears to be a D-Region Tomahawk or some variant of it. I'd like to replace the soggy tubes but not sure what vendor and what size tube. Doesn't match anything I currently have.

It has a fairly detailed plastic noes cone, the shoulder appears to be 44mm in diameter. It has an all plastic fin can assembly with decent detail on it and a 24mm motor tube that extends half way up the rocket to a plastic tube coupler. Parachute ejection occurs at the nose cone. I don't have pictures, yet but was hoping someone would recognize it from my description and get me to the right manufacturer. I need to clean it up a bit before pictures.

Any ideas?

 

[kuririn]

Sounds like it might be an Estes D-Region Tomahawk (OOP). Let me dig mine out and post some pictures so you can compare.

 

[kuririn]

Here they are. The nose cone is very distinctive: long with the rivet holes molded in. Fin can is beveled. Uses two ST-18 tubes, I believe. Erockets sells the tubes.




BTW did you recover your Sahara?

 

[mhanna]

Yep, that looks like what I found. I'll check Erockets to see if I can track down the body tubes.

No the Sahara is still at the top of the tree, some ideas about a sling-shot grappling hook have surfaced but nothing definite yet.
Thanks for your help, do you know what years the D-Region produced?

 

[K'Tesh]

At 1.8" OD, you're going to be hard pressed to find a match (even with eRockets). To my knowledge exactly one kit used that sized body tube (made out of cardboard)... The Estes D-Region Tomahawk. The camera body of the Cineroc is also 1.8", but it's too short, and not gonna help you.

 

[kuririn]

The ST-18 tube may be slightly too big, at 1.84" OD, 1.80" ID. See K'Tesh's post above. Measure and double check before ordering.

This kit was still being sold up until a couple of years ago.

 

[kuririn]

Correction: the tube size is a HBT-1800. Might be hard to find. I would try Estes customer service, but it's a long shot.

 

[Bat-mite]

I have an unbuilt Estes D-Region Tomahawk kit that is missing the little plastic nose cone tip (which is why it is unbuilt!). If you just need the body tubes, shoot me a PM. We can work something out.

 

[mhanna]

Bat-Mite I may take you up on it but I've contacted Estes for their advice first. Just a question, if you give up your tubes how will you ever build the kit?

 

[K'Tesh]

Here's an idea...

Buy another DRT and build it with only one body tube, use the 2nd body tube to replace the damaged tubes, then combine them both with a Pro Series II Partizon kit, and you'll end up with something that looks like one of Daddyisabar's projects:

Oh, and don't forget about my trick for using milk bottles to make your kit a 29mm powered bird.

This is what I have planned for what I'm doing with the CinerocDV camera body's leftovers.