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chrism 11-12-2018 03:31 PM

Sunward Kits
 
Apogee Componants have annouced that "Jim Danforth, the owner of BnB Hobbies, has concluded a deal to start producing the Sunward line of kits, and hopes to start releasing them before the end of January 2019. According to Jim, the kits will be revamped with totally new instructions and other enhancements. They will not be under the Sunward name, but under the BnB Hobbies brand name."

I hope they produce some of their fighter jet rockets!

ratchetman 11-12-2018 04:10 PM

That's good to hear. I've been wanting to get some of the Canaroc clones.

ghrocketman 11-12-2018 09:47 PM

Their Canaroc clones were their only kits even remotely interesting.
Now if they would bring back their motors....

rraeford 04-30-2019 11:35 AM

Is there any news on this front?

barone 03-20-2021 04:59 PM

For lack of a better thread.......

Does anyone have the plans and scans for the Desert Fox?

ghrocketman 02-11-2023 02:52 PM

I'd take a hard "Pass" on all those kits even if they were brought back.
A local hobby shop still has some of those major duds.
They have sat on their shelf hooks for probably TEN YEARS.

the mole 02-11-2023 03:13 PM

JimZ Has the plans, but he has been asked to take them down this weekend.

Tramper Al 02-11-2023 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by the mole
JimZ Has the plans, but he has been asked to take them down this weekend.


I have to say that seems like a poor (and mean-spirited) business decision. By all means make and sell cool model kits. But trying to keep the contents of that kit shrouded in secrecy? Bad form. Without the plans, the files, the catalogs, a kit has no life in posterity and few will care if it is ever brought back. Estes and Carl@Semroc shared files of their current and past models - and those models are/were more revered as a result.

astronwolf 02-11-2023 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TigerHawk
EXCELLENT post!


Not at all EXCELLENT.

Those designs and plans are not your or my intellectual property. Someone else did the work, and they own them. Ther demand to take the plans down is not mean-spirited in any way. We are not entitled to them, and obviously, JimZ is posting up plans like crazy without asking for permission.

PaulK 02-12-2023 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by TigerHawk
I got these Sunward kits from Hiawatha Hobbies. :cool:

Thank you! Those have been hanging on pegs there for a long time, I was getting kind of tired of seeing them.


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