This is a continuation of a discussion that began in the "Free decals" thread of the Vendors subforum.
TO RECAP: Fred Talasco of Excelsior Rocketry had started the thread with an announcement that he was working on producing reproductions of decals for the OOP FSI kits, and was looking for volunteers to Beta test his decals, before he was ready to add them to his catalog of decals for sale.
Several people responded to his post, and they included descriptions and pictures of various FSI clones that they had recently built, cloning projects that they had underway, descriptions of actual FSI kits that they had built in the past, or discussed unbuilt FSI kits that they possessed.
In short order, this discussion hijacked the original "free decals" thread, at which point it was recognized that the discussion of cloning and requests for cloning information was no longer pertinent to Excelsior's vendor thread, and needed to be moved to its own thread.
So, here we are. 
If you have built clones of FSI models in the past, and would like to share some of your experiences, we'd like to hear from you.
If you are currently involved in a cloning project of an FSI model, or are considering starting such a project, please tell the rest of us all about it; you are sure to find a receptive and interested group of fellow rocketeeers who are also fascinated by these uniquely designed rockets. I certainly do hope that this will be a good place to ask and answer specific questions related to cloning FSI kits.
Finally, if you have built any actual FSI kits in the past, and would like to share your thoughts about the up-and-down quality of the company's kit components over the years
, you are certainly welcome to do so here.
The primary purpose of the thread, though, is to discuss ongoing FSI cloning projects, as well as cloning projects that have recently been completed, and to share information, tips and techniques with others who wish to reproduce these kits.
Oh, and please include pictures of your projects, in whatever stage that they are in - we do like pictures (yes, we do!
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Mark Kulka