I bothered Carl about the parts for this one for a while, so I firured I owed him a look at the progress. It's a 1.75x upscale of a rocket you may have heard of previously called the Centuri Vector V. It uses a 4" length of Semroc 225 tube, and an (I forget) length of ST-13, hopefully powered by an Estes E9-6 (Semroc ST-9 tube.) Carl made CUSTOM centering rings for me in two sizes to allow the three different sizes of tubing to fit together seamlessly. Amazing quality. They slipped together snugly but easily. As it stands now, I plan to fly it on Saturday or Sunday, weather and wife permitting. I'm not sure I'll have the paint and decals done by then, but my dinner date cancelled on me for Tuesday, so it looks like I'll have the whole night to do my usual "sit around in my underwear building rockets, watching poker on ESPN and eating dinner straight from the pan" thing. Good times.
I might just wear my lucky Pink Panther underpants to mark this Tuesday as a special occasion.

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Build floor: Centuri Design Contest F-150 Hurricane Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

Man, that is just too cool

What method did you use to upscale and produce the reducer shroud?

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So, I guess this is a:

Vector VIII lxxv/c

Be sure to put on the little rectangular vanes!

Dumb luck. I tried all of the available programs, but nothing they produced was usable. (No fault of theirs. I just didn't know what I was doing.) In the end I just used the upscaled pattern that was on the sheet with the fins from the JimZ site. Apparently they upscaled very closely to the actual numbers, but I actually PLANNED that. Go figure.

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Design Contest F-150 Hurricane Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

If you want to get technical.



Thanks for reminding me. I killed my 1:1 version before I could add them.

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Design Contest F-150 Hurricane Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2