11-07-2017, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
I finally finished up my Apogee II model today.
It's actually a Thrustline (Remember them?) kit with laser cut fins by Semroc and Excelsior Rocketry decals.
The parachute is an actual late 60s/early 70s Estes 12" black and yellow checkerboard version. The shroud line was still good but the tape strips had passed their expiration date so I substituted some adhesive monokote to secure the shroud lines.
The paint scheme is that which was first seen in the 1971 Estes catalog.
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Mike Hellmund (who built the "photographic model quality rockets" for Estes) would be proud of your work! I can't help wondering, though, if that choice of colors wasn't at least partly motivated by marketing considerations; since blue rockets tend to vanish in a blue sky, they could sell more Apogee II kits... :-) |