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!
