Off-Topic Comrades:


Done! (Well, mostly)

Attached are the images. The first is the the rocket all in primer. I went with Duplicolor Black Primer on the tube and nose with a minimal amount of overspray on the fins focusing on the repaired area. My experience is red plastic is extremely hard to paint over without getting bleed-thru. This is critical for the white nose but I decided a little red bleeding through the copper on the fin unit wasn't necessarily bad. The primer helped seal up the water-damaged body tube pretty well.

No outdoor picture because it's raining on-and-off and the lighting is bad but the second picture is the final. Colors are Rustoleum spray Copper, Camo Deep Forest Green and Flat White in the alternate Nike-Smoke scheme. The scheme works well for this model with its pronounced fin can. The nose was tricky to mask but it worked out.

The parachute needs a little more work, but that's all the rocket needs to be ready for launch. The kids want to go launch so maybe by the end of the month.

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Awaiting First Launch: Too numerous to count
Finishing: Zooch Saturn V; Alway/Nau BioArcas; Estes Expedition; TLP Standard
Repair/Rescue: Cherokee-D (2); Centuri Nike-Smoke; MX-774
On the Bench: 2650;
Dream Stage: 1/39.37 R-7