Today, I happened to be hanging around in the basement La-BOR-atory and chanced to open the door of the rocket cabinet.
The hinges were kinda' creaky, and there were lots of cobwebs...
There I was confronted with the large array of rocket projects that I had started during the past few years but had lost the motivation to get them finished.
Pulling out the big mish-mash of pieces and parts, I organized them into various 'project boxes' laid out on the central shop workbench. It is my hope that having everything out in plain sight will motivate me to get my rear in gear and get these builds completed.
So here is the roster:
A Nike Apache, Mini Honest John, Puma
Scale Viking IV, A R.V. Condor, Mercury Redstone
Artemis I, Nike Smoke, Black Hole Space Probe.
Then there are the various models still remaining in the repair queue, an ESAM-58, Solo, Quark, and the rigging on the Quest Icarus payload section.
Lots to do!
There are a lot of creaky joints and cobwebs on this old, gray-haired rocketeer as well.
A case of Mountain Dew and quality time bustling around the workbench should help with that.
There is a lot of blogging in my near future as I will be posting progress reports on all of this. Do stay tuned.
Cheers!
Ugh. I don't even like to think about what I have to finish and repair, not to mention photograph and admit to it.
ReplyDeleteThat said, while my wife was gone last week I told her that I would clean my stuff off of the piano that we have in the basement. It's become kind of a "catch-all" and I have a bunch of nose cones, motor plugs and various rocket parts stacked on it. While cleaning, I found a Blast From the Past Space Shuttle kit that I bought back in 2001-02. It had some hangar damage and some of the parts for it that had been broken off over the years were on the piano with it. It's now moved up to the coffee table in the living room. The parts that I found on the piano with it have been reattached and a couple of new ones are waiting to be cut. It should be flightworthy again by the time the spring flying season.
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