Now that the Holidays (a.k.a. 'eating season) are past, it's time to get back to building rockets.
Even though my rocketry time will be shared with the on-going basement finishing project as well as daily music practice, I anticipate making good progress.
So, what am I working on?
I still have the nine or so models left over from the 2022-23 "binge build", which never really fully got going.
This year, I'm breaking the build pile down into smaller, more manageable chunks.
Currently, I'm concentrating on five birds.
Two of them , the 13mm and 18mm booster stages are completed through the build and grain finishing stages. Both are now awaiting primer.
Viking 4 scale - completed sanding the fin airfoil facets and filling the balsa grain. These components along with the nose are also ready for primer.
Black Hole Space Probe - completed cutting apart the PNC-50BB nose cone assembly and smoothing out the seam lines on both the nose and display nozzle sections.
A.R.V. Condor - Starting the process of sanding an airfoil into the glider wings.
Even though the the kit directions don't require this, I do so anyway with all of my glider builds.
Just makes 'em fly better.
I won't be doing daily blow-by-blow build 'threads' on any of these models, but will write frequent progress posts with lots of pics.
Stay tuned...
I've been bitten again by the Goony bug. In the midst of a Semroc Snake Jumper clone and have the parts collected for a Gee'Hod. I also picked up parts to do another of the Estes Goonies on Carl's Groonie scale, just because in my mind they'd be fun to fly at B6-4 Field. On a B6-4, no less. (Not that it would happen anytime soon. B6-4 Field is doing an Atlantis imitation for the foreseeable future. January. Bleah.)
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