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Old 08-11-2018, 09:18 PM
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I heard that the Little Joes were "on the boat", meaning that they are in a container on a ship coming from China.

The waiting is the hardest part (cue music).

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Old 08-11-2018, 11:24 PM
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I got my 2018 Estes catalog today and was please that the MR Little Joe was in it. The description states balsa fins. Does that mean we have to hand-scrape the full bevels into the fins? If that’s the case, I’ll probably build them up from super-thin plywood over a basswood armature.
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Old 08-12-2018, 09:51 PM
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I got my 2018 Estes catalog today and was please that the MR Little Joe was in it. The description states balsa fins. Does that mean we have to hand-scrape the full bevels into the fins? If that’s the case, I’ll probably build them up from super-thin plywood over a basswood armature.


Ellis Langford explained at NARAM 60 that the fins are laser-cut balsa frame pieces with laser-cut cardstock overlay.

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Ellis Langford explained at NARAM 60 that the fins are laser-cut balsa frame pieces with laser-cut cardstock overlay.



Translation: Cardstock with balsa skeleton. Yuck.
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Old 08-12-2018, 10:34 PM
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Is there a link to it at Estes website? I could not find it .
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:06 PM
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Here is a photo of the prototype in the Estes conference room.
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:09 PM
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Is there a link to it at Estes website? I could not find it .


See pages 8 and 9 of Estes 2018 catalog.

https://www.estesrockets.com/media/...WEB_VERSION.pdf

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Old 08-13-2018, 12:35 PM
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Here is a photo of the prototype in the Estes conference room.

nice photo! let's see,

- Apollo LJII 1/45 back in production -- check

- LJ in production -- check

- Mercury Atlas?? be still my heart!!!
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Old 08-13-2018, 12:59 PM
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nice photo! let's see,

- Apollo LJII 1/45 back in production -- check

- LJ in production -- check

- Mercury Atlas?? be still my heart!!!


Yes, the interesting thing about this is that Ellis told us on the tour that anything we saw in the conference room would be in the next (2019) catalog. When I mentioned the Atlas to JumpJet and Angela the Product Manager in the Hospitality tent, they both went, "news to us!"
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I'd like to see Estes offer both the 1/70 and 1/100 Saturn 1B again too.
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