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Old 03-02-2014, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by hcmbanjo
I was surprised Quest was out of the tubing.
BMS will set you up with tubes.

I glued the Vostok capsule pieces inside the nose halves - along with the lead weight.
(I'm building the original MPC kit, not the reissue)
The lead weight weighed in at .18 oz.
You should add the equivalent clay (or whatever you prefer) weight to the nose.
If you don't glue in all the detail pieces inside the two nose halves, you should add their weight in addition to the .18 oz.
I have a feeling this one needs the nose weight.


How do you think a C6 would do in this bird? I have a couple of the originals that I had intended on building at least one, but not sure how a standard C6-3 will fair with one of these. I don't recall off hand what the flight-ready weight would be.

Seems Fred mentioned that the never-issued MPC C9 was supposed to have been for these two plastic kits. I never knew anyone who had one of these kits back in the day or reports of flights on other motors.

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