vjp
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After taking some time off building over the holidays, I finally picked up pace again on the Vostok project, and here she is!
The core is based on Peter Alway's Vostok plans from the "Art of Scale Model Rocketry". The boosters were cardstock shrouds made to scale (I thought the BNC-20R nose cones, as specified in PA's plans, were a bit too small and I decided to go with a more scale-like set of strap-ons), and the spacecraft section was built-up completely from epoxy and cardstock shrouds, and misc. pieces of tubes (no balsa in this project at all).
She's just over 24" tall, and about 10 oz. with chutes (but no motor). Motor mount is 24mm, sized for "D"s. In addition, the booster base sections are BT-60 with BT-20 tubes in ply CR2060's, so it's possible to put 18mm motors in the strap-ons. I doubt very much I will ever do this (mostly because there's no plugged 18mm motors out there), but I <b>may</b> try flying her with A10-PT's in the strap-ons, in adapters.
The core is based on Peter Alway's Vostok plans from the "Art of Scale Model Rocketry". The boosters were cardstock shrouds made to scale (I thought the BNC-20R nose cones, as specified in PA's plans, were a bit too small and I decided to go with a more scale-like set of strap-ons), and the spacecraft section was built-up completely from epoxy and cardstock shrouds, and misc. pieces of tubes (no balsa in this project at all).
She's just over 24" tall, and about 10 oz. with chutes (but no motor). Motor mount is 24mm, sized for "D"s. In addition, the booster base sections are BT-60 with BT-20 tubes in ply CR2060's, so it's possible to put 18mm motors in the strap-ons. I doubt very much I will ever do this (mostly because there's no plugged 18mm motors out there), but I <b>may</b> try flying her with A10-PT's in the strap-ons, in adapters.