I'm curious what people think is the most difficult 'off the shelf', currently available, LPR kit?
The FlisKits Decim8 looks like it should be a contender.
The FlisKits Decim8 looks like it should be a contender.
I'm curious what people think is the most difficult 'off the shelf', currently available, LPR kit?
The FlisKits Decim8 looks like it should be a contender.
That would be my vote. I recently finished one and it is the only kit I've had to put away for a period of time and then pull it back out, more than once.
That being said, the build is very rewarding, you actually feel like you accomplished something when your done.
I hope to fly my Decim8 for the first time this Saturday.
Das Model (Noris) Soyuz or Vostok will make any "Amerikan" kit look like child's play. Except maybe the Flis Kit Saturn 1B, which I have heard due to the size of the escape tower it will drive you crazy.
Das Model (Noris) Soyuz or Vostok will make any "Amerikan" kit look like child's play. Except maybe the Flis Kit Saturn 1B, which I have heard due to the size of the escape tower it will drive you crazy.
I have a Flis Saturn 1b sitting right here next to me.....I have heard the same thing...the tower will drive you mad! I have long concluded that I am already nuts...so I am thinking about giving this one a try....what else could happen? now...it won't be like I am trying to make a German Heavy Cruiser fly or anything....with the Von Trapp family as crew...now THAT is a challenge!!
I would have to concur and it expand it to any Noris kit.
Stick with Fliskits. You get quality to go along with difficulty.
Yep, building is one thing, flying is another. On a silly oddroc cluster you need all the motors to light at the same time or game over. Getting things to glide properly can be more difficult than any build and should only be attempted by those crazy guys who like Space Shuttle and lifting body kits . Scratch builds and some OOP kits will blow away the Noris kits, but we are talking about currently available LPR.
You will have to get the magnifying glass out for that Flis 1B and show us all how it is done.
I think I might just take a shot at her Daddy....going to be doing some work on the house here.....that is assuming my wife ever makes a decision on the paint etc....hey...only been few months! :eyeroll: no hurry...at this rate I could empty the build pile before I ever have to start painting...just happen to have a handy magnifying glass and I think I will need it on the Flis 1b. I think I will make her Tom Stafford's ASTP!
I am hoping the Hauptmann is doing well?
Rocket building trumps home repair. You need rockets to maintain your health. Building the Skill Level V Flis 1B is heavy duty exercise and will take you to the next Level of Flistopia.
Hauptmann is doing fine, the neighborhood rabbits and all other vermin are not.
Welcome to the forum, ClusterBomb. Grab a beef on weck for me.Hi-
First post just to say FlisKits' Nell, due to having to line up the long rods that hold it together, and the fact that a lot of paper is used. Totally worth it though.
Other names coming to my mind that are in my fleet are Estes Black Star Voyager and FlisKits USS Grissom.
Even the Flis Thunderbird can present challenges at skill level 2.5. Don't know if Semroc is still considered "available," but there is the Mars Lander, Hydra VII, and a Saturn 1B on a D12-3 for honorable mention. But they still don't hold a candle to DAS MODELL - Noris. Until you have a Vostok or Natter in the air they will just fart in the general direction of you silly English "bed wetting" types. Until you have mastered vacuform, avoiding gotchas, creating your own ways of attaching boosters, doing a proper frosty paint job and solving a host of other issues including balancing the model for D12 power, I will have to taunt you for a Second Time! Golly, I wonder why Americans hate these kits? Why do Germans love David Hasselhoff? Even a simple Natter kit can have a mean streak a mile wide. If you want the most difficult, currently available LPR kit then look no farther than Apogee Components, or lord help you, bid on a stock Noris kit someone opened and got scared of so they put it on Ebay. Time to risk the big bucks (or Euros) on these kits. Time to learn German and order direct from the Fatherland because that is the only language they speak. Don't go crying to Brother Maynard for the Holy Hand Grenade if you can't handle these nasty little kits.
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OK all you MASTER BUILDERS, get ready to laugh at me. The most difficult LPR kit for me was the SEMROC ARCAS. The profiling of the fins, the fin roots and bolts drove me crazy (it ain't that far of a drive).:y: Heck, I have been putting off for 2 years building the SEMROC Aerobee 300! I start shaking just thinking about the "shrouds"! :eyepop:I would need a padded room to attempt any of the above kits. My hat is off to you MASTER BUILDERS.
Had an Estes Mars Lander when I was a teenager, lost it in the trees at college flying it at night (you DO tend to do stupid things at that age...). It took awhile, but it really didn't require master building skills, just time. I have a Semroc Saturn 1B in the box, I look at it about every 6 months and decide I don't have the time to do it right. That kit is a LOT of work.Semroc Mars Lander, Semroc Saturn 1B.
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