Secret Santa 2021

[UPscaler]

Thank you Secret Santa for the 4" LOC T-Loc with 38mm upgrade parts! This is an awesome addition to the lineup of "just go fly it" rockets I've been collecting. Sometimes you just gotta have a simple one to pop a motor deploy motor in and let er rip!


Braden

 

[jazzviper1]

My Secret Santa was way too generous. Eleven kits plus a set of wraps for the Redstone. Thank you! After the year I have had this is very welcome.

 

[markschnell]

I'm so impressed with the North Coast Rocketry Hobgoblin I got from my Secret Santa. I've built a few of the Pro Series kits from Estes but the Hobgoblin is a whole other level of beefy. Secret Santa also included a major heavy duty parachute for that kit too. Can't wait to build it!

 

[markschnell]

My Secret Santa was way too generous. Eleven kits plus a set of wraps for the Redstone. Thank you! After the year I have had this is very welcome.

Wow, that is awesome. That'll keep you busy for a good while!

 

[Jtgreig]

Happy to report I got the Estes interceptor and that's about it thank you secret Santa!!

 

[emckee]

Thank you too my secret Santa! I received a Mach1 RIM66 kit! BT-60 on a 29mm motor... This should be a blast. We are working on a high thrust ex propellant in a 29mm form factor that this rocket will eat for lunch!

 

[Wally Ferrer]

Thanks Secret Santa! I've wanted these for a long time...

 

[Alan R]

Many thanks to my Santa. The one thing I'd really been wanting this year was a second 38mm.
Love it.

 

[brockrwood]

Oh my Gosh! My Secret Santa sent awesomely cool rocket stuff! Thank you, Santa!

So many great rockets, to build!
Pemberton Technologies Little Bucky Jones, a Screamin’ Green Meanie, and a Leaping Llamas Builder’s Special!

 

[brockrwood]

Papa Elf sent me two kits! A Yankee and a Citation Patriot! Papa Elf said they were duplicates received for the Papa Elf Special and he wanted them to go to a good home. They are now in a good home. Thank you, Papa Elf!

 

[brockrwood]

My rocketry cup runneth over! I got great building supplies and a cool Square in the Air rocket kit from @TigerHawk !! This is his annual pay it forward rocket gift and I was chosen. I am honored! Thank you!

 

[Stan]

I have been participating in the TRF Secret Santa program for many years and am consistently amazed by the kindness and generosity of others. Thank you to Papa Elf as always and a big thank you to my generous Secret Santa who blessed me with a great bounty of rockets. Estes: DoorKnob, Antar, Big Daddy, Honest John, and a Mars Snooper. You inspire me to match/surpass your generosity next year. Rocket Folks are the best people around!

 

[n3tjm]

Papa Elf and Mrs Elf want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. As mentioned earlier the Conspirators sent me a 7.6" dia LOC Patriot Kit. I will post pics when I get back from my Christmas Trip. Mrs. Elf received two Pemberton Kits. The Kraken and the Screamin’ Green Meanie. While this is not a post where we share our Christmas loot, I wanted to share this pic of aprons Mrs. Elf got for me (and herself).

 

[mikewrt]

My Secret Santa was way too generous. Eleven kits plus a set of wraps for the Redstone. Thank you! After the year I have had this is very welcome.View attachment 496505 View attachment 496505 View attachment 496506 View attachment 496506

What a bunch of great kits! Really like the wraps for the Redstone!

 

[mikewrt]

I'm so impressed with the North Coast Rocketry Hobgoblin I got from my Secret Santa. I've built a few of the Pro Series kits from Estes but the Hobgoblin is a whole other level of beefy. Secret Santa also included a major heavy duty parachute for that kit too. Can't wait to build it!

I'm inspired by your comments to have to have a peek at NCR kits in the future. Look forward to some build pics and flight reports (with amazing HD video of course! ).

 

[mikewrt]

Thanks Secret Santa! I've wanted these for a long time...


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Love the Sputnik! Launch video please!

 

[mikewrt]

Oh my Gosh! My Secret Santa sent awesomely cool rocket stuff! Thank you, Santa!

So many great rockets, to build!
Pemberton Technologies Little Bucky Jones, a Screamin’ Green Meanie, and a Leaping Llamas Builder’s Special!

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WOW look at all those @Pem Tech kits. Wonder who your SS is???

Papa Elf sent me two kits! A Yankee and a Citation Patriot! Papa Elf said they were duplicates received for the Papa Elf Special and he wanted them to go to a good home. They are now in a good home. Thank you, Papa Elf!View attachment 496518 View attachment 496519

Is this a sneak peak into the PES? Bwwwwhahahaha Love it!
Any plans for the Citation Patriot? Think I'm smelling a 24mm upgrade and sneaking a payload bay in the top few inches.... *sniff, sniff*. Yep that's definitely what I'm smelling (with a proper OR sim of course).

My rocketry cup runneth over! I got great building supplies and a cool Square in the Air rocket kit from @TigerHawk !! This is his annual pay it forward rocket gift and I was chosen. I am honored! Thank you!

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Congratulations! Apparently @brockrwood has been a really GOOD boy this year! Thank you @TigerHawk, Thank you @n3tjm!

 

[mikewrt]

Papa Elf and Mrs Elf want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. As mentioned earlier the Conspirators sent me a 7.6" dia LOC Patriot Kit. I will post pics when I get back from my Christmas Trip. Mrs. Elf received two Pemberton Kits. The Kraken and the Screamin’ Green Meanin. While this is not a post where we share our Christmas loot, I wanted to share this pic of aprons Mrs. Elf got for me (and herself).
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Merry Christmas Papa and Mrs Elf! Nice aprons! I'm assuming you both spend time together in the kitchen and this should clear up the pecking order without question. Congrats on the Pem Tech kits I hope you like them! There was discussion among the conspirators that we want a pink Kraken. Either a nice contrasting shade of pink or nice shiny black in the tube fins!

 

[mikewrt]

Got a super awesome Big Daddy kit! Thank you Santa! I know not everyone is into playing the Santa guessing game but I usually try a couple times, if Santa wants to confess. I also see no one has taken any guesses at their SS so I'll take the first go at it. I'm guessing @DRAGON64 is my Santa.

 

[Hobie1dog]

WOW, looks like something that I need to consider for next year, good job everyone.

 

[DRAGON64]

Got a super awesome Big Daddy kit! Thank you Santa! I know not everyone is into playing the Santa guessing game but I usually try a couple times, if Santa wants to confess. I also see no one has taken any guesses at their SS so I'll take the first go at it. I'm guessing @DRAGON64 is my Santa.


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Merry Christmas!

 

[DRAGON64]

I received a Hurricane 38 from my Secret Santa, thank you! and Merry Christmas!!

 

[Tobor]

Hey everyone,
I pray y'all had a great Christmas!

A big "Thank You" to my Secret Santa and to Papa Elf! You have helped to make Christmas extra special this year.
I received an Estes Antar and an Estes Der Big Red Max with a Vander-Burn plywood upgrade kit and 1010 rail button set, Sweeeet!!!

 

[bronicabill]

A big "thank you" to my SS who sent me a box full of assorted fabric parachutes as requested! Now I just need to get rid of all the plastic ones I have and replace them with these new ones!

After seeing what all many of you received, I feel a little guilty for having only shipped one rocket kit to my recipient! However, with the wife being unemployed, and myself on disability income only, it was the best I could do this year. Hopefully next year will be much better!

 

[brockrwood]

WOW look at all those @Pem Tech kits. Wonder who your SS is???



Is this a sneak peak into the PES? Bwwwwhahahaha Love it!
Any plans for the Citation Patriot? Think I'm smelling a 24mm upgrade and sneaking a payload bay in the top few inches.... *sniff, sniff*. Yep that's definitely what I'm smelling (with a proper OR sim of course).



Congratulations! Apparently @brockrwood has been a really GOOD boy this year! Thank you @TigerHawk, Thank you @n3tjm!

I’ve got an idea for a kit bash:
Citation Patriot from @n3tjm on the bottom but upgraded to 24mm motor mount with parts from @TigerHawk. Then a transition I have to custom make. (Hmm: Gotta’ figure out where I put that Estes paper shroud kit I have somewhere.) Then a middle section (about BT-55 size?) using a tube from my Secret Santa gift! Then another transition I have to custom fabricate. Then the Yankee (BT-20) from Papa Elf on top, sans fins as the final section. Then paint the whole thing white and red to do a Secret Santa motif!
The secret santa gift rocket kit bash!

 

[brockrwood]

A big "thank you" to my SS who sent me a box full of assorted fabric parachutes as requested! Now I just need to get rid of all the plastic ones I have and replace them with these new ones!

After seeing what all many of you received, I feel a little guilty for having only shipped one rocket kit to my recipient! However, with the wife being unemployed, and myself on disability income only, it was the best I could do this year. Hopefully next year will be much better!

You do what you should/can do as Secret Santa based on what life throws at you. I don’t think anybody on this forum would fault you for sending one rocket when that is what makes sense based on your circumstances. You are a mensch for being a Secret Santa when life is throwing you curve balls. Thanks for participating despite life’s challenges!

 

[EvryThngIsAOk]

Thank you Santa!!! i received a wonderful NCR Bounty Hunter. this will
Be my 4 NCR build and I love their Kits.
Thank you for
Your generosity is overwhelming

 

[beeblebrox]

Thanks Secret Santa, got tubes for a project that has been waiting!

 

[0011001100]

Thank you to my secret santa. I got the Loc spool rocket which will be fun to fly at my local field. Plan on making it a sparky motor eater as I think it would be cool to be able to easily see the whole burn of a loud sparky

 

[Pem Tech]

Many thanking yous to my Secret Santa! Got the 1/4" launch rod I've been needing, a kit I have lusted for since 1972. A Mars Snooper! Not like it couldn't have scratched it at any time but holding the actual kit in my hands was a thrill. Finally there was a a strange nose cone, body tube, graphic and bag of parts.
It is a "I flew my drink"! Tiki II, electric Boogaloo. Love it! Need to look up the thread on this one.
All in all a grand haul. And Estes sent a tree ornament.