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The built-up fin design might be better for keeping the weight of the tail section down. Have you read about Drew's 1/100 Saturn 1-B flight from this past weekend (thread in The Rocketry Forum)? I think he used solid resin type fins and, even with added noseweight, has some problems with his model pinwheeling shortly after launch. You may recall that Centuri's Saturn 1-B used hollowed vacuformed plastic fins...
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It has been a battle to avoid changing anything that would take away from the positive experience of recreating the Gene Street et al interpretation of the Saturn 1B. If one desires to make a true scale of the SA-207 Saturn 1B, there are many better ways of doing it and this kit is at best a starting point. If you want to relive the path taken after (allegedly) Gene Street grabbed a handful of BT-50's and asked if they could be the starting point for a Saturn 1B, this should be a fun kit. Some of the "mistakes" are easy to "fix" but they are left in as a tribute to Gene Street. Vern said Gene passed away about five years ago. I had hoped to meet him and tell him how much I admired his work as Chief Illustrator at Estes. His drawings in the early days still provide inspiration to me about how model rockets are supposed to be drawn. I asked Vern if it was true that the K-29 Saturn 1B was designed by Gene. Vern said it was a team effort, but Gene "had a mightly big hand in it!" Gene Street is another model rocket pioneer that I would like to be remembered.
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Ahhh, perfect! It's the cutting and fitting that had me skeered. With luck I'll fly my Saturn next summer . . . 33 1/2 years after I bought it! |
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Anyone spotted this in the wild yet? http://www.semroc.com/Store/scripts...ts.asp?SKU=KS-1 |
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The Saturn 1B is my all time fav real life rocket.
I can't wait to get my hands on a kit and if the quality is anything like the Mars Lander then I'm in 7th heaven
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Ah......now that's what I've been saving my gift certificate for
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Carl, I, like everyone else here, am looking forward to building this kit. I thrive on kits like this,
like your Mars Lander, something other than 3 fins and a nosecone. wick |
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I *was* saving mine for the Saturn 1B and the Little Joe II but I got tempted by some other kits while I was waiting and now it's all spent. Guess I'll have to shell out real money when they are available. |
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I planned on saving my Semroc gift certs for when the Saturn 1B and LJII came out but I spent them on Hustler, Aero Dart, Taurus, Explorer, and Lil' Hustler kits !
I'll have to shell out real cash too !
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Great. The very week I order a 1B from elsewhere, this happens.
Oh well. So lemmesee, I wonder how many dollars worth of stuff will I have to order to see "Saturn 1B" pop up as a choice in the free gift spot of the Semroc online order form? |
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