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Thank you. I like it, but up close it shows my normal lack of attention to detail. The balsa grain is pretty evident, but the on-pad pics should be good enough, especially for my non-exacting standards.
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Yeah, you're trying to play down the finish quality to disguise the real question that remains... Where's the launch lug? .
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A useful name for this type of model reproduction that you've done here, where you only have incomplete data to go on, might be "Forensic Scale," because it is similar to the other forensic arts (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_arts ). While the term "forensic" is usually associated with police work (where a police department sketch artist or sculptor [both can use computer techniques and/or the original manual ones] creates a portrait or sculpture of a subject from witnesses' descriptions), these techniques are also used in other fields, such as art reconstruction, anthropology, archaeology, etc. Also: A few plastic model kits have been Forensic Scale, too (one example is the Testors 1:48 scale Area 51 UFO kit, which was designed based on verbal description or descriptions). A working definition of Forensic Scale model rockets might be: ************************************ A Forensic Scale model rocket is a replica of a full-scale rocket or spacecraft (or of a proposed, cancelled, or existing but yet-to-be-flown vehicle of either type, or a fictional vehicle of either type), or a replica of a non-scale, Scale, Sport Scale, or semi-scale model rocket kit of the past, whose design requires the builder to utilize forensic art techniques due to having only incomplete data to use. These forensic techniques can include reconstructing fin patterns, other parts (including body tube lengths), and decor schemes from published and/or unpublished, partly-dimensioned and/or un-dimensioned drawings, illustrations, sketches, and/or photographs of the original vehicles or models, as well as printed and/or verbal descriptions from the original vehicles' or models' manufacturers, as well as from others who built or owned examples of the original vehicles or models. ************************************ I hope this information will be helpful.
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This information, along with catalog descriptions of the kits, enables forensic reconstruction of them. For example, Bo-Mar's Phoenix kit (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...9/69bomar8.html ) was described as being "21 inches long" in bullet points at the top of its page. Its hardwood nose cone (which was mentioned in the kit description) was 3.25" long, as the catalog showed (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca.../69bomar14.html ). The BBT-2 body tube--also listed on that page--was 18" long, and 18" + 3.25" = 21.25", which they probably rounded off to the "21 inches long" bullet point on the Phoenix's catalog page, and: The drawing of the Phoenix on its citation page, plus the "group portrait" photograph of all of the Bo-Mar model rockets (in built & finished form) on the back page of the catalog (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...9/69bomarb.html ), would enable forensic reconstruction of the Phoenix's fin pattern, its nose cone if needed (it was a ~4.3:1 tangent ogive), and also its "official" decor scheme. (While the picture is black-and-white, the stark contrasts between the "white" body tube and the "black" nose cone, fins, and the portion of the rear body tube that's between the fins could be matched by several colors--white and black, or yellow and black [or white or yellow, perhaps with a red or blue nose cone, fins, and rear body tube]--it's possible that no particular colors were specified, and that only the paint scheme contrasts themselves were suggested in the kit instructions.) I hope this information will be helpful.
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A Centuri (Semroc) ST-7 tube would be a nearly identical match to the Bo-Mar tubes at .715 ID and .759 OD.
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Very nice. May it be found in the corn fields, to fly a second time ...
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And Billy Mumy. BTW here's a nose cone that's the closest I could find to the BoMar one: http://www.erockets.biz/semroc-bals...ne-7-3-3-ogive/ With that and the ST-7 tube ( and some "eye-sim" ) should be able to clone all seven of their kits. |
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That was August or September. The next thing to find it will be a mower come spring.
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