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Old 05-02-2011, 05:45 PM
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Someone a few weeks ago posted a photo w/an old Apogee II in it,
and I was insipred to move mine up in the build queue. It's a blue hang-tag kit
w/lasor cut fins from SEMROC. My original intent was to build a clone, but the kit was open and there's somthing about the look of old Estes brown Kraft paper tubes that just looks cool. Now it's gone from the build queue to the paint queue. Heck, I might not even paint it.

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Old 05-02-2011, 09:01 PM
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Someone a few weeks ago posted a photo w/an old Apogee II in it,
and I was insipred to move mine up in the build queue. It's a blue hang-tag kit
w/lasor cut fins from SEMROC. My original intent was to build a clone, but the kit was open and there's somthing about the look of old Estes brown Kraft paper tubes that just looks cool. Now it's gone from the build queue to the paint queue. Heck, I might not even paint it.

S.


Sean,

Your Apogee II looks great in it's birthday suit!

Weather has been so humid here in southern Louisiana that I've had no choice lately but to kick a few of mine into the paint queue.

I always liked that model and the Apogee II is one that I never did own. An original Apogee II was hanging up in Hub Hobby in New Orleans for many years from a string on the ceiling along with some other nicely built vintage models. The owner built them and finished them when the kits were new and used them for display models in the store. Hurricane Katrina destroyed all those models when the flood waters rose up above the ceiling inside the hobby shop. I'd like to clone it.

(Oh, and you gotta paint it ..... eventually)



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Old 05-02-2011, 09:31 PM
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Sean,

Your Apogee II looks great in it's birthday suit!

Weather has been so humid here in southern Louisiana that I've had no choice lately but to kick a few of mine into the paint queue.

I always liked that model and the Apogee II is one that I never did own. An original Apogee II was hanging up in Hub Hobby in New Orleans for many years from a string on the ceiling along with some other nicely built vintage models. The owner built them and finished them when the kits were new and used them for display models in the store. Hurricane Katrina destroyed all those models when the flood waters rose up above the ceiling inside the hobby shop. I'd like to clone it.

(Oh, and you gotta paint it ..... eventually)



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Thanks for the kind words, Steve. I think I mentioned in a previous thread that the Apogee II has always been one of my favorites - it was the 4th rocket I ever built.
Yeah, I probably will paint it but *that* queue is getting pretty deep .....
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Old 05-02-2011, 09:54 PM
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At the very least, give that puppy a Koat of Kilz.
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Old 05-03-2011, 08:23 AM
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That's a very nice kit and great job on putting it together...yeah definitely paint it. It will at least protect it.

Are those kits still available or something similar?
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Old 05-03-2011, 08:31 PM
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Thanks. The kit isn't available, but you can buy the parts from SEMROC.

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That's a very nice kit and great job on putting it together...yeah definitely paint it. It will at least protect it.

Are those kits still available or something similar?
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Old 05-03-2011, 10:12 PM
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what company actual made the Apogee II

I want to look it up on YORP see if I can get the plans etc

I saw this kit from Estes and it kind of looks almost the same

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/est/est3201.htm
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Old 05-03-2011, 10:15 PM
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It was an old Estes kit.
Try: http://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/k-05.htm

It was one of the first few I ever had, but being a newbie and not understanding what I was doing, I launched it with a C booster and C upper stage.

I think it left the universe.
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Old 05-03-2011, 10:44 PM
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what company actual made the Apogee II

I want to look it up on YORP see if I can get the plans etc

I saw this kit from Estes and it kind of looks almost the same

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/est/est3201.htm


Estes made the original - you can find the plans here < http://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/k-05.htm >. The TaserTwin is a combination Apogee II (booster) and Skyhook (Sustainer).

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Old 05-03-2011, 10:47 PM
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It was an old Estes kit.
Try: http://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/k-05.htm

It was one of the first few I ever had, but being a newbie and not understanding what I was doing, I launched it with a C booster and C upper stage.

I think it left the universe.


That would have been me if I had had 2 C's to put in mine. I still managed to lose it in a tree on it's first flight.

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