I picked up one of the canted "Deuce" engine mounts from Flis Kits at Narcon, but when I got home I had a hard time deciding what to build it into. It fits a BT-60 tube, but I didn't want to just throw it into a Big Bertha, so I waited for inspiration. Well it struck earlier in the week in upscale form. Anyone want to take a guess at what I upscaled?

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HA! I've obviously stumped the band with this one. See if this brings it in any more clearly.

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Wild-hair guess, but that circular section "suggests" the USS Atlantis.

Craig McGraw

A well guided suggestion indeed. I figured that was a dead giveaway.
I wasn't sure how it was going to look with the canted mounts, but so far it looks pretty cool. I've got the BT-55 ram tubes here with me at work and I'm hoping to find time to cut them down and sand them so I can put them on tomorrow night. After that it's on to the detail pieces. I haven't really given them much thought yet.
The Flis Kit mount is a really nice piece of work. Very sharp. I was amazed at how easily it slipped into the BT-60 after I finished putting it together.

The fact that there have been banner ads about the "Refit USS Atlantis" popping up here on YORF didn't hurt...

But it was also the only design I could think of that had that "landing deck". The fins in the earlier picture reminded me of the nacelle columns, too...

Do you think those canted motors will have any effect on performance? Good, bad, or indifferent?

Craig...

"Cool" would be enough for me. It's a BT-60 based rocket, so it's fairly large anyway. The two motors should be enough to get it off the pad. And the smoke trail should look REALLY sharp.
Have you seen any shots of the Flis Kits "Deuces Wild" in action? That's where the mount is originally from.

No, haven't seen flight shots of that kit, though I've probably looked at the images at least once when I visited Jim's web site...

I do remember once seeing some shots of a Titan III with canted motors and, as I recall, no fins. I also remember seeing a picture of a modroc that had two body tubes with a common motor mount and the two bodies canted outward toward the top (like a two-headed snake, which is how the decals were applied). The Titan III flew OK, but the two-headed snake... well...

It just looked like there was a LOT of angle in that mount, relative to the length of the body, and it's a little strange to see them like that...

Craig...

I'll see if I can find a good Deuce shot that I can link you to.

(mock hysteria) OMG! It's a Diet Mountain Dew!

Seriously, Bill, it looks pretty good. Say, whenever I think of the Atlantis, I consider getting some hemispherical custom nose cones for the "warp nacelles," to make it seem slightly more... Enterprising.

Anybody else think something remotely similar?


--Jay

Didn't it appear that way in some catalog photos?