Bob,

Thanks for the complement! I didn't like the color scheme on the Estes Panavia https://www.estesrockets.com/rocket...-iitm-panaviatm and thought it deserved something much better. I usually paint my rockets up like their catalog or face card pictures. For the Panavia I really didn't want to use the suggested green color scheme pictured at the Estes web site which would essentially camouflage it to hide in the trees and tall grass.

The Estes Viking is a cheap kit that I converted into lots of different designs. I even saved some of those yellow tubes that come in the kit for positioning the thrust ring and made a tube fin design (with Centuri Groove Tube decals). Incidentally, the launch lug fit perfectly in the gap between the tube fins.

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Bruce S. Levison, NAR #69055