Thanks again Bill,
If It ends up I'm stuck by cardstock thickness , I may take you up on sending some samples.
I'll go ahead an PM you my address just incase

I'm planning to use cardstock,cardboard and matteboard for those parts, figuring thickness as I go .

If one popped up on greedbay for less $, that would help alot, but $40+ is alot to me.
unless I was to never open it . I leave that to the collectors.


The scans will help ALOT, they are much clearer and I can drop them into illustrator and modify my drawings in minutes rather than hours.

much appreciated !



actually,I'm not far from making a(non cryptic) complete parts list to upload with the templates

I think mine was $20 years ago when they were all over the place. Never did get the Starfighter.

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Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl 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, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc Cyber III

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

I like the starfighter, it's so over the top with the twin fusalage.

Well, there is a whole thread on that one! That should make it easy.

OH, yea, I have the decals for that one too...actually that's the one that started this Buck Roger's thing.

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I got the spelling wrong-- it's ---Marauder.
sorry about that.

Tons of those Buck Rogers kits still exist because like most other "movie/TV" related rockets, Centuri/Estes grossly over estimated the demand for them and got stuck with a warehouse full. The same thing happened with the original release and re-release of the Star Wars and Star Trek rockets, and the original Black Hole space probe (not nearly as bad as the first two). The only Star Wars rocket that is fairly rare is the X-Wing Maxi-Brute because that danged thing (like all Maxi Brutes) was so highly OVER priced for it's day and did not fly worth a hoot on the power Estes had available. Not that many sold or were produced.
The same thing occurred with the BSG Colonial Viper and Laser Torpedo, but on a much smaller scale as they only produced those in 1978 and only catalogued them through 1979.

Most that sell those Buck Rogers Rockets on ebay grossly overvalue their worth and most sit for a long time with NO sale. They are actually worth no more than about $25 as they are not rare at all and are widely avaialble. I would not pay even close to $40.

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