Bill, I'm cloning the original as well, using the plastic cone from a Wildfire. Your easiest route to the cone is to pick up a Skywriter. The balsa pod cones...
Just reread Steve's message - no dots on the wrap but stripes on top and bottom. I was thinking of using BareMetal Foil and black pinstripe decal, although...
I was gonna try LetraSet instead of the decal. Figure it would be a bit more fragile, but a lot easier to get stuck down originally. We'll see... ... top ... ...
I figured it was the AW, as none of the other matched the meaurements Steve gave except the AX, which is more pointed. I figured that I'd take an AX and round...
It would awesome to get it form the original source. You might want to consider submitting scans of anything you've go to JimZ. I'm sure he'd like to have the...
... How many tapes did Estes do over the years? I just know of the Shatner one and only another one apparently of recent vintage. BTW- There's no "h" in my...
... I have I feeling it's done my fine arts students fresh from college (or fine artists in general) with no practical experience in commercial graphics. Back...
... The Luftwaffe did like their angular designs. Something to remember if you want to do alternate German space history type designs, like that Custom Rockets...
Nope, no minimum needed. Bill told me he would add it to the Stock Cones list once he makes it. Drew ... meaurements ... special? ... a ... not ... the ... ...
Probably best to get an AW from BMS; if you used an AX, you wouldn't have enough balsa to get the blunt taper, since the AX is the same length as the AW. I...
I'm preparing to clone the X-24 Bug, but after reading of someone's mishap with their clone (charred tail end), I'm reluctant to launch it under it's own...
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Doug, Sorry I miss spelled your name. There zre 5 total Estes video tapes. 1970 T-Minus One and Counting 1989 a demo looped 1989 The Last Frontier (William...
Just in case anyone is interested, I picked up a built Centuri Mach 10 at auction recently. It arrived yesterday and came with everything but the original...
Does anyone here have the plans for the Estes Mercury Capsule Cat no. 651-PSM-1. If you do, is there any way that you could scan them and email them to me....
I picked up the foam Swinger and Winnie at HL's 1/2 off sale. The Winnie went together very easily, although I had to trim the fin tabs or widen the fin slots...
Doug: I can't answer all of the UPS & USPS questions, but this is what I know: USPS requires that something like that be shipped ground & declared as hazardous...
... YORS takes ALL submissions, and posts them promptly. ;-) I'll also post your Star Trooper plans. All of my Centuri kits I remember getting had the fin...
If I remember correctly, the carrier in question is 4 inches in diameter with a fairly squat nose cone (the Apollo capsule.) The bug fits on that nicely. ...
... motors? Even ... tube and ... Trip Barber wrote a great document on the USPS shipping requirements here: http://nar.org/pdf/shipping_rocket_motors.pdf The...
I have the Enerjet News issue that had the article about boosting the X-24 Bug on the first stage of the Centuri Saturn V kit with an Enerjet motor. Go to Ye...
... Chas, I'm sure Sven doesn't mind the advertising, but Ye Olde Rocket Plans where the plans are located is at http://plans.rocketshoppe.com ;-) Ye Olde...
Scott, I have Sven's site on my computer at work and that is how I access my favorite sites. It wasn't meant as a slight and I should have referenced it. You...
"Topics In Advanced Model Rocketry is apparently available again in a paperbound "print on demand" format from the MIT Press, at $70/copy." If you are looking...
... Ah, got ya. Using Sven's site as sort of your "favorites links". Works good for me! I didn't take it as a slight at all. I just thought that maybe you...
