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Old 08-20-2009, 02:34 PM
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Default Top 10 favorite rockets

i just thought i would post my 10 favorite rockets here, others please post your lists so i can see them as well

1. estes rubicon
2. N-1 (MODIFIED PAPER MODEL FROM CURELL, GOT THE IDEA FROM EMRR)
3. estes colossus (clone)
4. Quest superbird
5. fliskits rhino
6. fliskits tres
7. custom rockets big chief
8. quest terrier-orion
9. centuri Argus
10. estes marauder
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Old 08-20-2009, 02:44 PM
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1.) Astron Sprint
2.) Astron Constellation
3.) Astron Space Plane
4.) Nike Hercules
5.) Saturn V 1/100th
6.) Saturn 1B any scale!
7.) Nike Ajax
8.) Big Bertha
9.) Astron Interceptor OK, the E is all right too!
10.) V-2 any style, German, Project Sandy, Bumper Wac...etc


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Old 08-20-2009, 04:09 PM
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SHX Star SHuttle
SHX Stiletto
SHX-15B (mid power)
SHX Firefox
SHX LexxJet
Centuri SSV Scorpion
Centuri Space Shuttle
Centuri SST
Centuri SkyLab
Quest MLAS
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Old 08-20-2009, 04:44 PM
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1=Scratch - Sweat-Stained Clifton Tracking Station Hat of Death
2=North Coast Rocketry (NCR) - Big Brute (pre_Estes)
3=Public Missiles (PML) - Small Endeavour
4=North Coast Rocketry (NCR) - SA-14 Archer XL
5=Scratch - Whirlygig-24
6=Model Minutes - XFLR-7
7=Shrox Industria - SHX-15
8=Estes - Fatboy
9=Semroc - V2
10=Art Applewhite Rockets - Delta Flying Saucer 24mm
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Old 08-20-2009, 08:34 PM
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Wow, this is hard to do.

Centuri Stiletto
Centuri 1/45 scale Little Joe II
Centuri SST Shuttle
Centuri Taurus
Centuri Centurion
Centuri Quasar
Centuri SkyLab
Estes Starfighter Combo (2 really)
Estes Andromeda
Estes Starship Vega (Citation Version)



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Old 08-20-2009, 10:06 PM
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How can you pick just 10?


How about 10 groups of 10.....
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Old 08-20-2009, 10:09 PM
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1. Estes Trident
2. Estes Orbital Transport
3. Estes Saturn 1B
4. Estes Saturn V
5. Estes Maxi Pershing 1-A (never had, buy have a resin cone and fin set)
6. Estes Maxi Honest John
7. Estes Interceptor (std. or new upscaled model)
8. Almost anything Centuri, most craved are the double-swept fins on some, the futuristic models, etc. (mail-ordered motors, but never had a kit, so I need to get something off eBay one of these days ...)
9. Estes Big Bertha/Super Big Bertha
10. Estes Astron Cobra (the cluster model I dreamed of as a kid, and cloned almost 50 years later ...)

Honorable Mention: Mosquito (original and my fiberglassed, 5X upscale)
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Old 08-21-2009, 07:27 AM
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Just 10, huh? OK, here goes:

1) scratch built or kit-bashed 1:24 scale German V2 in ragged camo or "girl on the moon" finish
2) Custom Rocketry Sam-X
3) Estes Black Brant II
4) Semroc Mars Lander
5) Mercury Redstone
6)Saturn V
7) Saturn 1B
8) Estes Andromeda
9) Rokitflite Fake-Wulf
10) Holverson Designs Swinger
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Old 08-21-2009, 07:36 AM
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Here's how I'd rate them right now but an hour from now it might be different.

1) Interceptor
2) The model I'm building right now.
3) The model I most recently finished.
4) Saturn 1B
5) Cineroc-Omega
6) Orbital Transport
7) SST Shuttle One
8) Shrike
9) Farside-X
10) Trident

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Old 08-21-2009, 08:11 PM
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Difficult - almost impossible!

Here are my ten, but I'm not going to say these are in order.

Trident - Estes
Saturn V - Estes (the only one I have experience with)
Mars Lander - Estes
Interceptor - Estes
ACME Spitfire - Fliskits
Icarus - Shrox
Explorer Aquarius - Estes
Gravity Rider - Sunward
Kraken - Pemberton Technologies
Laser X - Centuri
Strike Fighter - Estes
Saturn 1B - Estes (same as Saturn V)

Umm - let's see - I've gotten past 10 so I need to stop

As I said - impossible
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