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Old 08-25-2017, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by tbzep
For a display model, yes. But for flying, those things are really heavy. I can finish a balsa nose cone that you can't tell from plastic unless you pull it out of the tube, and even with the sealer, primer, and paint it will still be a lot lighter. If it's a flight model, I'd stay away from resin cast unless it's a model that requires considerable nose weight with blow or injection molded cones.
The ones I ordered (two #7 and one #8 nose cone) are hollow-cast, and they're just slightly heavier than the injection-molded original ones. The solid-cast polyurethane ones, though, are considerably more massive than the originals; they only make the smaller ones (#5 size and one or two short #7 size ones) as solid-cast nose cones (one exception is their 1:100 scale Apollo capsules, which are solid-cast because they serve as "built-in ballast" in Saturn and Little Joe II models).
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