Quick build thread on ASP's Astrobee D micro-rocket. Unless I'm mistaken it's a relatively new kit, came out in 2021. It's a scale model built around a T-MM minimum diameter tube and will end up about 7" tall.
All the stuff in the bag:
ASP's instructions are detailed and clear, and I'm a big sucker for the simple lineart cover drawings.
First note to me is the brightly colored little plastic bits. These get used as anchors for the shock cord. I believe that's a change with this kit, the previous ASP MMX kits I've seen tied directly around sections of coupler tubing.
As usual for ASP's MMX kits there's a generous amount of polystyrene fin material. You could cut at least two, maybe three sets of fins out of it. In this kit one whole 1.5" coupler tube is included solely for pushing in the motor block, so that's another very useful extra bit that will find its way into a scratchbuild at some point. There's also their usual length of polystyrene angle stock used purely for marking the tube. I have to work on something to do with these.
The streamer in this kit, supple mylar that works as well as any material does in MMX tubes, is twice as wide as their usual, I believe, and fairly long.
The decals might be at higher resolution than some of their older kits. I don't know if I'll use the black boxes, as opposed to simply masking & painting those tail sections. But the logo and Astrobee D name label are sharply printed.
All the stuff in the bag:
ASP's instructions are detailed and clear, and I'm a big sucker for the simple lineart cover drawings.
First note to me is the brightly colored little plastic bits. These get used as anchors for the shock cord. I believe that's a change with this kit, the previous ASP MMX kits I've seen tied directly around sections of coupler tubing.
As usual for ASP's MMX kits there's a generous amount of polystyrene fin material. You could cut at least two, maybe three sets of fins out of it. In this kit one whole 1.5" coupler tube is included solely for pushing in the motor block, so that's another very useful extra bit that will find its way into a scratchbuild at some point. There's also their usual length of polystyrene angle stock used purely for marking the tube. I have to work on something to do with these.
The streamer in this kit, supple mylar that works as well as any material does in MMX tubes, is twice as wide as their usual, I believe, and fairly long.
The decals might be at higher resolution than some of their older kits. I don't know if I'll use the black boxes, as opposed to simply masking & painting those tail sections. But the logo and Astrobee D name label are sharply printed.