The rocket itself is the dart, as it were. Of course, it wasn't originally intended to be a passenger craft, but here we are...
I do see exactly what you’re saying about the nose.
I do see exactly what you’re saying about the nose.
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That spot should be under a decal, so it will be a bit less visible than if it were in the white area.
Wow, what a relief! I was thinkin’, “is he crazy? Those two tiny holes would spoil the whole look of the rocket if they were on a white background!”
A "vent" label would probably be exactly what I'd put there if there were other similar sorts of things elsewhere on the rocket. My Accur8-skinned rockets have endless small details like that but in general I don't really know how to do all that stuff in an intelligent way. If John Pursley designed this rocket it would look very different I suspect.Polka dots? A red max helmet with a bullet hole? Lots of ways to camouflage a vent hole. Or just put a label next to it that says: VENT.
Yeah I picked that up.I suspect BABAR was being facetious
I tried that once in the past and really had trouble with it; it's been a while but if I recall correctly I couldn't get the bend of the tab to match the rest of the shroud, and ended up with mild creasing at either end of the tab. I should probably go back and try it again now that I've had a lot more practice. In the meantime, I can usually hide the seam pretty well, either by CA+sanding+CWF or by simply putting it underneath something. Always room to get better in that area though.Coming along nicely. If you're really OCD about shroud and nozzle seams, you can consider a glue strip behind the seam instead of an overlapping glue tab. Both sides across the seam are level with each other, less filling needed. For future consideration.
I tried that once in the past and really had trouble with it; it's been a while but if I recall correctly I couldn't get the bend of the tab to match the rest of the shroud, and ended up with mild creasing at either end of the tab. I should probably go back and try it again now that I've had a lot more practice. In the meantime, I can usually hide the seam pretty well, either by CA+sanding+CWF or by simply putting it underneath something. Always room to get better in that area though.
For whatever reason I've not felt the need to do this, and I'm just using 65 lb card stock. Certainly a double layer "super-shroud" would be incredibly strong, but it hasn't seemed necessary at least on most of the ones I've done so far. If I squeeze my transitions I can dent them, but to normal gentle handling they feel pretty hard. Maybe I just haven't flown any of these enough times to experience flight damage.I think Chris Michielssen (@hcmbanjo) in one of his blogs talked about doubling his transitions (draw and cut out two and glue them together.) Added strength.
Changing the orientation of the seam is definitely required when doing a supershroud, you don't want the seams stacked whichever way you do them.Tagging along with the BARgeezer above, you could use scotch tape to fix the adjacent seams of the first one, and glue the second one on with the seam in a different orientation on top of the first.
Not so silly; you can actually bevel off the paper edge on the outside pretty effectively if the overlap tab has been well-treated with CA, and that's what I normally do (@Gary Byrum uses this approach as well I believe). On the inside, it's somewhere between difficult and impossible to do that, but it usually doesn't matter so much inside anyway.This suggestion is both silly and seriously the best way to do it: sand bevels into the paper edges so that as they overlap the combined thickness stays steady.
But styrene is always thin; its viscosity is slightly lower than water's.After the wood glue dries, I like to paint with thin CA all of my paper anythings: nozzles, fairings, shrouds, transitions. Gives them the consistency and toughness of thin styrene.
More precisely, vacuformed styrene.But styrene is always thin; its viscosity is slightly lower than water's.
Oh, wait a minute, did you mean polystyrene? My bad.
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