hcmbanjo
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Here's a tribute and thanks to the cardstock designers:
Eric Truax, Bob Harrington and Greg Poehlein.
And, I include Wayne Hill for his website and all the carded rockets found there.
I just made this today. I know there has been Bic pen MMX rockets - for those, kudos to Art Applewhite.
All my favorite classics have already been downscaled from the Red Max, Goblin and Big Bertha. I thought I'd go with a modern classic.
Here's my downscale of the Estes Sky Writer.
The cool thing is, it is the same size (just over 1/4" diameter) of a regular pencil. When it sits in your hand you fell like you could almost write with it.
The nose cone seems long! It's the right length though, scaled from the Estes kit.
Rolling a tube this small a diameter is hard! A little steaming and some pre-rolling on progressively smaller dowels really helps.
Later tonight I'll start a build thread on this rocket at my blog:
www.modelrocketbuilding.blogspot.com
The PDF is too big to attach here! Just PM with your email address if you would like to give it a try. I send out the PDF to you.
Thanks for all the inspiration and hours of great builds guys!
Eric Truax, Bob Harrington and Greg Poehlein.
And, I include Wayne Hill for his website and all the carded rockets found there.
I just made this today. I know there has been Bic pen MMX rockets - for those, kudos to Art Applewhite.
All my favorite classics have already been downscaled from the Red Max, Goblin and Big Bertha. I thought I'd go with a modern classic.
Here's my downscale of the Estes Sky Writer.
The cool thing is, it is the same size (just over 1/4" diameter) of a regular pencil. When it sits in your hand you fell like you could almost write with it.
The nose cone seems long! It's the right length though, scaled from the Estes kit.
Rolling a tube this small a diameter is hard! A little steaming and some pre-rolling on progressively smaller dowels really helps.
Later tonight I'll start a build thread on this rocket at my blog:
www.modelrocketbuilding.blogspot.com
The PDF is too big to attach here! Just PM with your email address if you would like to give it a try. I send out the PDF to you.
Thanks for all the inspiration and hours of great builds guys!
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