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Old 07-19-2011, 12:58 PM
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Semroc has the laser-cut fins for the Icarus. I had one of these back in the day, I liked the clean lines of it. I plan to clone one soon. A very easy conversion can be made by using the Nova Payloader and just changing the fins to that of the Icarus.


Yeah, I know Semroc has the fins. But sometimes, I just gotta cut me some balsa. Of course, when I built my Astron Sprint, I bought the fins from Semroc - they are basically perfect - much better than the "die crushed" fins that came with my kit back in the 1980's.
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Old 07-19-2011, 02:58 PM
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Yeah, I know Semroc has the fins. But sometimes, I just gotta cut me some balsa. Of course, when I built my Astron Sprint, I bought the fins from Semroc - they are basically perfect - much better than the "die crushed" fins that came with my kit back in the 1980's.


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