This winter I spent far too much time on this Farside clone, which I'll lose sooner or later. It is all Semroc parts, with a decal from excelsior. This was a fun build - did everything old school, from coupler style engine mounts to aero-gloss balsa filler & sanding sealer with a lacquer finish.

I put her up a few weeks ago on a B14-0/A8-0/A8-5 combo, and she flew great. A generous club member gave me a few B14-0's so I could fly her again, which I intend to. I love flying these old designs.

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Very nice Farside! I'm also envious you managed to obtain some B14-0s

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Yup, a very cool flight.

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Nice looking Farside. Now it's time to increase the pucker factor with a 3x C6 flight, with the Chinese/Quest version in the sustainer.

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WOW...That's great!! Don't think i have ever seen that kit before.



Brett

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PaulK,

Very nice, and I love the classic paint job and decals. Just did a big flashback to the late 60s. I never built the Farside, but a friend built one, and I wimped out and built the Apogee II ...


But I sure remember building a lot of the coupler and cardstock type of engine mounts. And all the sanding to get them into the body tube!

I built an Astron Cobra clone last year, since that was a kit I never built as a kid, but always loved the styling. You've got me thinking Farside now ...

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Nice job on it. Your paint matches the catalog very well. What did you use for the yellow?

IMO, the B14-0's are a must for this bird. Since they're so scarce, I opted to build my 1st stage to use 24mm boosters. I suppose, on a really calm day, with a long rod, you could use a B6-0 or C6-0 in the 1st stage, with light motors in the upper stages, but it's still kinda risky without a high thrust motor in the 1st stage.

Doug

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I had a Farside-X back in the day.... the slender version is pretty. Doug's idea of using a 24mm motor in the first stage makes sense to me.

I can't remember what I flew my Farside-X on but since the few remaining motors I have from back then are 1/4A and 1/2A boosters I suspect they were involved. I remember it staging the first time barely off the launch rod.....

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Bob Kaplow has talked about flying a Farside on a baseball field using ¼A-¼A-¼A, and the rocket making a pop-pop-pop sequence due to the short burn times and staging noises, so I can imagine it being barely off the rod, or even still on it

My personal experience doesn't include any ¼A boosters (yet, ) but with the newer motors, including ½A3-0T's, the staging has always been up in the air a ways.

OTOH, I've burned a few of the old ½A boosters from long ago, and they do stage barely off the rod, or so it seems. So I can only conclude the old ¼A boosters were very low at staging.

Doug

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I've staged a Beta on 1/4A3's and it didn't even clear the rod before staging. (It did barely clear the rod when I flew it without paint or primer) I can't imagine a Farside even moving with a 1/4A booster.

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