DynaSoar
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Who would have believed, that in the early years of the 21st century, minds immeasureably superior to ours still wouldn't have learned their lesson, and we'd have to kick their Martian butts all over again? No germs, this time. This time it's personal. This time we're taking the fight to them -- on Mars.
This is Thunderchild, named for the Royal Navy ship that died protecting Londoners escaping via steam boat from the Martian tripods in War Of The Worlds (at least in the musical version). Designed for flight direct from Earth surface to Martian atmospheric tactical use and return, the sleek aerodynamic shape hides a rock hard heart. Martian cylinder launchers are targeted by triple kinetic kill rocket launchers midships.
This is to be my DESCON 14 entry. It's essentially 12" of BT70, with nose and tail both Apogee PNC56 cones. The tail is cut (by the handiwork of Sandman once again; many thanks) to allow projection of the 3 x 18mm cluster motor tubes (see business end, two right hand panels). The motor mount is from Thrustline, modified by using 12" long motor tubes, with the regular centering ring fore and a BT60 coupler epoxied against the aft inside end of the tail. The cockpit (second panel) is a 13mm ogive nose, cut lengthwise, the bottom half cut off of one, and it inserted backwards under the longer half. This is surface mounted to the nose with epoxy. The "rocket launchers" around the middle are 1/4" styrene tubes, with an internal diameter of 7/32", making them 3/16" capable launch lugs. The fins are 1/8" basswood and fit through slots in the tail cone (though not all the way to the motor tubes). The finish is Rustoleum chrome/stainless steel, over a healthy layer of white satin finish for spiral filling on the body, and over flat white primer on tube and cones.
It came out a bit heavy for three C6's (14 oz without engines), but luckily I picked up a few packs of C5's from ROL. And there's always AT's 18mm D's.
If the pictures are still hard to see, I'll try posting them individually.
This is Thunderchild, named for the Royal Navy ship that died protecting Londoners escaping via steam boat from the Martian tripods in War Of The Worlds (at least in the musical version). Designed for flight direct from Earth surface to Martian atmospheric tactical use and return, the sleek aerodynamic shape hides a rock hard heart. Martian cylinder launchers are targeted by triple kinetic kill rocket launchers midships.
This is to be my DESCON 14 entry. It's essentially 12" of BT70, with nose and tail both Apogee PNC56 cones. The tail is cut (by the handiwork of Sandman once again; many thanks) to allow projection of the 3 x 18mm cluster motor tubes (see business end, two right hand panels). The motor mount is from Thrustline, modified by using 12" long motor tubes, with the regular centering ring fore and a BT60 coupler epoxied against the aft inside end of the tail. The cockpit (second panel) is a 13mm ogive nose, cut lengthwise, the bottom half cut off of one, and it inserted backwards under the longer half. This is surface mounted to the nose with epoxy. The "rocket launchers" around the middle are 1/4" styrene tubes, with an internal diameter of 7/32", making them 3/16" capable launch lugs. The fins are 1/8" basswood and fit through slots in the tail cone (though not all the way to the motor tubes). The finish is Rustoleum chrome/stainless steel, over a healthy layer of white satin finish for spiral filling on the body, and over flat white primer on tube and cones.
It came out a bit heavy for three C6's (14 oz without engines), but luckily I picked up a few packs of C5's from ROL. And there's always AT's 18mm D's.
If the pictures are still hard to see, I'll try posting them individually.
