sandman
03-25-2006, 06:07 PM
Maybe it can. :rolleyes:
I read a post about a week ago about the new SEMROC Apollo Capsule kit where the poster wondered why it was just a static model.
To me this sounds like a challenge.
My idea won't be "exactly" to scale but it should work.
If you've seen my Apollo Pad Abort Test thread you may have figured out where I'm going.
4 Micro Maxx motors...let's see is 1/8A each so that would be 4/8A or 1/2A...YEP! That'll lift it!
Now I have to make a base, 3/16" balsa spun on my lathe should do it, the paper pattern is all wrong for the pad abort, the motor flare is gonna need quite a bit of changes to get it to work.
I did a set of drawings for 1/70th scale as well as a set of four Micro Maxx motors as the escape rockets.
The motors stick out so they aren't to scale but...they don't make anything smaller than Micro Maxx.
The motor mount will simply be four motor tubes glued to wedges of the proper angle and the gaps filled in with tissue and glue.
The motor tubes will be short so that without the motors the model will retain a scale look but the motors will stick out when installed.
The drawing on the right is a blow-up of the motor mount.
I read a post about a week ago about the new SEMROC Apollo Capsule kit where the poster wondered why it was just a static model.
To me this sounds like a challenge.
My idea won't be "exactly" to scale but it should work.
If you've seen my Apollo Pad Abort Test thread you may have figured out where I'm going.
4 Micro Maxx motors...let's see is 1/8A each so that would be 4/8A or 1/2A...YEP! That'll lift it!
Now I have to make a base, 3/16" balsa spun on my lathe should do it, the paper pattern is all wrong for the pad abort, the motor flare is gonna need quite a bit of changes to get it to work.
I did a set of drawings for 1/70th scale as well as a set of four Micro Maxx motors as the escape rockets.
The motors stick out so they aren't to scale but...they don't make anything smaller than Micro Maxx.
The motor mount will simply be four motor tubes glued to wedges of the proper angle and the gaps filled in with tissue and glue.
The motor tubes will be short so that without the motors the model will retain a scale look but the motors will stick out when installed.
The drawing on the right is a blow-up of the motor mount.