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View Poll Results: When you built your Astron Farside or Farside-X did you: | |||
Build it with canted fins as per instructions? | 14 | 53.85% | |
Build it with straight fins because crooked ones hurt your OCD brain? | 10 | 38.46% | |
Attempt to build it straight but 9 straight fins are hopelessly impossible for you? | 2 | 7.69% | |
Voters: 26. You may not vote on this poll |
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Mine appear to be pretty straight, clearly not built to the plans, it was built in the mid to late 70s when I was a kid and I assume I did the fins like all the rockets before. I had fin warping from the sealer so added the dowels near the fin tips to straighten them out.
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Oo! Oo!
Here's mine! Basswood fins. The yellow turned out to be lighter than I wanted.
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Built mine with straight fins. Flies great.
The only time I've ever intentionally canted fins was for the Twister, circa the 1970s.
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My Super Big Bertha is that color. I don’t remember what paint it is, but I wrote it down somewhere, so I would not use it again.
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I had a can of Walmart yellow about 20 years ago that looked like that. Seems like it was Sun Yellow.
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I looked it up, my SBB is Sun Yellow, but by Duplicolor! (It’s an ugly yellow that has a really beautiful finish ... ) My Mega Mosquito is painted in my favorite yellow — Valspar Gold Abundance. But it’s Lowe’s Valspar, not Ace Valspar, and Lowe’s dropped the Valspar line. The Ace versions have different names for their colors. I am not sure if Ace’s yellow is the same as Gold Abundance.) Here is that yellow. (If the fins looked splayed, they are. This is a very old scratch-build, before Estes came out with one. I guess when I enlarged the fin pattern 5X I missed getting the angle spot on. I should rename it the Squatty Mozzie ...) So, Mr. Turk, Mr. Brohm, and Mr. Sams, what yellow did you gentlemen use?
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Hi, Lee!
I believe I used Rustoleum #254155 Gloss Sunburst Yellow on my Farside. I use Rusto Farm & Implement Yellow for all of my Goblins. I really like your Mega-Mosquito. Inspired artwork, too.
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Lee, that's a good, bright yellow. For those who want something a little more Goblin-esque (slight orange tint but still yellow), decent name brands will offer Caterpillar Yellow and School Bus Yellow to get you there.
I'm guessing the Farm Implement Yellow is a close match for John Deere Yellow without paying them a royalty to use the name. BTW, everyone should take a nice long scrap of wood for each of the major colors and give it a base white coat. Whenever you buy a can tape off a strip and shoot a few coats. Jot down the brand and color name or number. That way you've got a record of it that will be there 10 years from now and you can instantly pick out the variety you want for that application.
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Good guess. See the pictures attached of the generic tractor with no manufacturer name and the pronouncement of the matching previous colors. Your long scrap of wood proposal, while complicated , is genius.
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Hi Lee; The yellow I used was Dupli-Color Perfect Match Chrome Yellow. It’s a lacquer, which I prefer, mainly because it can be re-coated in 10 minutes, and cures up hard. The only “downside”, if you can call it that, is it cures to a semi-satin sheen, which usually means some kind of clear coat is needed depending on the sheen one is going for. But that re-coat time means a whole lot of painting can get done in one day.
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