TLP Indigo Build, (With Launch Video Now)

[TopRamen]

Wow! I've been bragging about a flight nobody else can even enjoy.
I think I fixed it by changing it to public, so enjoy.

[video=youtube;n_4PixwVYug]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_4PixwVYug[/video]

 

[neil_w]

That's better. . Nice flight, at long last!

 

[TopRamen]

That's better. . Nice flight, at long last!

Thanks.

I can sleep well tonight, and I need it.:yawn::yawn::yawn:

 

[TopRamen]

 

[ozwald]

Great build thread and nice flight. TLP kits are great for the modelers in us. You do very good work. Thanks for sharing. Oz

 

[TopRamen]

Great build thread and nice flight. TLP kits are great for the modelers in us. You do very good work. Thanks for sharing. Oz

Thank you!

I do try to give it my all.

 

[Flyfalcons]

Finally got to see it on my computer monitor, very nice! Looked really great going up during dusk.

 

[TopRamen]

Finally got to see it on my computer monitor, very nice! Looked really great going up during dusk.

Thanks!

Glad you noticed the time of day!
Long ago, I learned that if you want the perfect moment and the best picture of the flames, it has to be either dawn or dusk.

 

[TopRamen]

Now that I finally have a decent pad, I'll be flying more often, and I'm working on gaining access to a bigger field and getting a chute release.

 

[TopRamen]

This is my new Favorite Rocket!

Even though I've now flown it, it actually turns out to be one of my "Most Hated Rockets".

 

[TopRamen]

I had ENOUGH of the Spiral and any other little imperfections, so I went crazy with the Bondo.

The spiral is still profound despite my thinking I had it licked back in the day.

I don't even deal with spirals anymore thanks to glass.


Looking back on this build thread is nice, because it reveals how naive I was, and thusly, I must still be.

I was just given a sample yard of Carbon Fiber Cloth, and have been doing lots of research into it.
Thankfully, nowadays I can spend the time I would have spent sanding spirals doing research.

 

[TopRamen]

Perhaps I should evolve it, like I did to my Star Trooper.
Strip, bore out, glass, new beveled fins......
Sculpt the shape into something new.

Just a thought. I have no time to actually do that.

 

[TopRamen]

8x Slo-mo reveals that as I expected, the rocket exhibits a slight twist due to that fin that is off by the slightest bit.

[video=youtube;4mp8fY2GoxE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mp8fY2GoxE[/video]