Since the face of the camera was flat, and I wanted to make it easily removable, I had to make a holder that would accomodate the camera so that the flat face of the camera body was outside of the rocket. If I had tried to put the thing inside of a BT-50 the lense would be too far away from the mirror hood which would have had to be very large. I chose to go the "carve out of wood" route. I started by building a box out of 1/32" basswood to hold the camera and mirror hood, then built up a smattering of balsa around it. It was built to fit on a BT-50 so I used a BT-50 nose block for a shoulder..

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