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Originally Posted by excelsior_rocketry
Please excuse the dungeon background....
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Phred, you may appreciate this... for *obvious* reasons.
Q. What do you do when you have *more* than enough decals for one rocket, and two little girls in the house?
A. Why, you build *two* rockets, of course.
http://www.rocketreviews.com/review...l_love_bug.html
I had traced the fin pattern to balsa shortly before the Great Basement Flood of 2005, but obviously got nothing done *last* summer.
Recently, I cut the fins out (imagine stack-sanding *six* 3/32" fins simultaneously), and using David J. "Sirius Rocketry" Miller's computer label paper finishing technique on the fins. (You can see where the excess CA ran off the edge of the fins onto the "flat" side.)
I attached the fins this week (again, using Dave's "masking tape to hold body tubes in place" method). I'd already assembled the motor mounts, so they went in last night (early this morning).
Now, I just need to track down a spray can of pink paint.
(I'm not sure that Krylon does pink.)
I'm hoping to fly these with my girls (ages 9 and a half, and 8) next month.
Cheers,
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