Your right lol Iam gonna look toniteI know how you feel. Look for another one then you can build it. lol
Your right lol Iam gonna look toniteI know how you feel. Look for another one then you can build it. lol
Pretty cool looking. This is Big Bertha's cousin. Is that a jig you made for the fins?Started on a NewWay Big Bessie to add to my Big Bertha collection. Applied some filler to the spirals and fins yesterday, started sanding. Sanded the rest today and began assembly, got the first set of fillets on. The kit includes a short section of heat-shrink tubing for the Kevlar close to the motor, which I found interesting...
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Not quite a jig, just popsicle sticks and clips keeping opposed fins aligned.Pretty cool looking. This is Big Bertha's cousin. Is that a jig you made for the fins?
A nice job you did. I have the 18mm ASP WAC with Tiny Tim Booster. You are right about the tapered fins that the original WAC had. I wish I painted mine with yellow like you did. I did the White version. Is yours an 18 or 24mm?Actually a couple of days ago, but I finally got the black painted on my Semroc 1/10 scale WAC Corporal. I used Vallejo model acrylics for both colors, sprayed with an airbrush. Came out pretty good! The tape lifted a small chunk of the yellow right adjacent to the conduit, but it will touch up easily with a brush.
I'm going to use Vallejo's dark aluminum metallic for the two bare metal fins. I'm messing with different techniques to get that brushed effect that makes it look like the WAC had beveled fins in the old photos.
The old WAC is one of my all-time favorites and this one is getting the scale treatment. Maybe not every rivet, but there will be a lot of them!
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It'll take a better mathematician than I to provide an accurate name for them...
This is different . Maybe submit to a Rocket manufacturer and get a Design Patent.The third project I started yesterday involves this little glider I built a few weeks ago. It was built just to be a fun little chuck/catapult glider, but after at proved to fly quite well I decided it needed a booster.
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Taking a que from some old designs for hypersonic vehicles and shuttle proposals that involved large external fuel tanks wrapped around a delta vehicle, I came up with this idea.
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BT-20 tubes, Semroc nosecones, 13mm mount in both tubes angled appropriately, dual streamer recovery. Planning some dummy engines in the middle and a few fiddly details.
I started a thread for this one over in the boost glider section: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/hypersonic-glider.164662/
Nice job. I have to make one of these.Built a HPR stand 3/4 inch pvc
Came out solid
This is definetly a different design. I agree on calling it a Cartoon Rocket. Nice job. Reminds me of the Vintage Cartoons from the 30s and 40's. How did you make the Nose Cone? ACME was used in old cartoons alot like in the Road Runner even though the company ACME never existed.Finished scratch build #104. 4" BT, 50" long, weighs 64 ounces with a 70" chute and has a 54mm mmt. I call it my Cartoon Rocket.
The nose cone was a paper mache craft cone. I bought several of them in different sizes. I used a couple to make boat tails. I used one to make the nose cone on a Nike Smoke. There real solid. I ordered some more yesterday.This is definetly a different design. I agree on calling it a Cartoon Rocket. Nice job. Reminds me of the Vintage Cartoons from the 30s and 40's. How did you make the Nose Cone? ACME was used in old cartoons alot like in the Road Runner even though the company ACME never existed.
A nice job you did. I have the 18mm ASP WAC with Tiny Tim Booster. You are right about the tapered fins that the original WAC had. I wish I painted mine with yellow like you did. I did the White version. Is yours an 18 or 24mm?
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Tried out some hooks from lowes on the LOC Graduator. And won a 1971 Estes catalog on ebay for $18.
Semroc is a very nice kit. I have a Retro "Astro 1". I cant seem to find a WAC . Guess Ill have to wait for production again.Mine is the 1/10 scale version from Semroc. It has an 18mm motor mount stock, but could easily be modded for 24mm. I just built it stock with the 18mm mount.
The Semroc kits are VERY nice in my opinion. I would highly recommend this kit if you are after another WAC!
I had that Candian Arrow, Loved it!Yesterday/last night:
Finished assembling the Estes Canadian Arrow.
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Then started the Rocketarium Roland SAM 3.
Interesting kit. Two motor cluster in a 3D printed housing.
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Comes with a ton of clay nose weight.
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Marked the tapers on the fins and started sanding.
Rough sanded with the block.
Then fine sanded with an emery stick.
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I cut out the areas where you are supposed to leave things square in the tapered area.
Will glue them back later on. Much easier than trying to sand around them.
Reminded how much I hate sanding.
One down, three more to go.
Laters.
I've had a lot of fun with those 29/40-120 motors! Try a G-64W in... well, anything!
I have a Mega Der Red Max waiting to maiden........good choice? Had planned on a Mojave green H, but a G may be a good break in.....
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