Binge Build: A Flock Of Fins!

Last evening was spent in removing the fins for six different kits from the balsa stock sheets.

Of course, the Big Bertha fins, being part of a scratch build, were cut the old school way with a pattern tracing on blank stock.

The Quest Icarus and Estes Big Daddy kits are of 1990s vintage, so the fins are removed from die-crushed sheets.

The rest are laser cut fins.

Here is the stack of raw fins:

This kind of reminds me of the number of balsa pieces labored over in my recent Orbital Transport build!

Next step is, of course, shape sanding.

While I was at it, I traced out pattern sheets of all these fins on Manila folder stock for future reference.  That's a good practice, in case one ever needs to replace a broken fin, do a rebuild, or build an upscale.

Cheers!