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Old 03-31-2008, 07:59 PM
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Say Mr Sandman:

An 18mm kit arrive safe and sound. Thanks. And...

I have retrieved the 24mm version to, yes get this, START BUILDING!!!



BTW, what production number was my 18mm version?

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Old 03-31-2008, 08:13 PM
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Say Mr Sandman:

An 18mm kit arrive safe and sound. Thanks. And...

I have retrieved the 24mm version to, yes get this, START BUILDING!!!



BTW, what production number was my 18mm version?

John


John,

Unfortunately by the time I get to the second run of kits I lose track of the production numbers so I don't put it on the kits.

It would be just a guess anyway. I basically make 20 kits all at once so number 21 and number 40 are about 10 minutes apart at completion.
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Old 03-31-2008, 10:35 PM
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OK. So I'm claiming No. 21 since I'm the first to speak up. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.



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Old 03-31-2008, 11:03 PM
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OK. So I'm claiming No. 21 since I'm the first to speak up. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.



John


OK, then you got number 21.

Understand how kits are made.

I make up 20 boxes. I line them up.

I make 20 nose cones

I make 20 transitions

I cut 80 booster tubes

I cut 80 motor tubes.

etc, etc...

All of the finished parts are in boxes and I go down the line and put one nose cone in each box, then one transition in each box, etc, etc...

The boxes are lined up on the floor.

Do I number from right to left or left to right?

Number 21 is the box I want to be number 21!

Yours is number 21.

I have spoken!
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Old 03-31-2008, 11:42 PM
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I haven't heard back from a lot of you that have reserved kits.

I may be having email trouble or it could be something else.

I believe I was on 'the list' for one of the 18mm versions when you got them available..Will try to drop you an e-mail in a bit...
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Old 04-01-2008, 06:18 AM
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Jon, I got your email.

Now let's see if you got my reply.

I sent notifications out but apparently nobody got them.
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Old 04-01-2008, 08:25 AM
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Roughing out plans for various NAR regional contests this spring/summer, I decided I'd have to build a decent sport scale model rather than continue to put my Roachwerks LJ-II and/or ASP Wac Corporal(s) through more contest stress. Pulled Gordon's Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules from Build Mountain (formerly referred to as the build pile). Ajax looked like a typically nice kit, but a little too simple/easy for a good competition model, so I went with the Herc.

Fantastic kit! I was a little shocked at the price ($140 for 4x24), but nose, transition and boattail are beautifully done. Laser cut fins are curved to fit the tapered surfaces and were darned near perfect. Really not that complex a build at all. Lots of wraps make finishing a breeze, unless you're anal retentive and want to go over the top like me. Since the kit comes with a CD with all the prints and templates on PDF, I am printing out various wraps and fin skins, will punch out recessed rivets, "weld" on a few hundred glue rivets (I've got a few special syringes for just such a task), apply a dusting of paint, and voila! Insanely crafted detail.

Just got a new/decent camera and will post a few build pics around the web (here, EMRR, etc.) next week or so.

This is probably going to stand out as my top Roachwerks kit, and that's really sayin' something.

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Old 04-01-2008, 02:40 PM
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Roughing out plans for various NAR regional contests this spring/summer, I decided I'd have to build a decent sport scale model rather than continue to put my Roachwerks LJ-II and/or ASP Wac Corporal(s) through more contest stress. Pulled Gordon's Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules from Build Mountain (formerly referred to as the build pile). Ajax looked like a typically nice kit, but a little too simple/easy for a good competition model, so I went with the Herc.

Fantastic kit! I was a little shocked at the price ($140 for 4x24), but nose, transition and boattail are beautifully done. Laser cut fins are curved to fit the tapered surfaces and were darned near perfect. Really not that complex a build at all. Lots of wraps make finishing a breeze, unless you're anal retentive and want to go over the top like me. Since the kit comes with a CD with all the prints and templates on PDF, I am printing out various wraps and fin skins, will punch out recessed rivets, "weld" on a few hundred glue rivets (I've got a few special syringes for just such a task), apply a dusting of paint, and voila! Insanely crafted detail.

Just got a new/decent camera and will post a few build pics around the web (here, EMRR, etc.) next week or so.

This is probably going to stand out as my top Roachwerks kit, and that's really sayin' something.

--Chan Stevens


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Old 04-01-2008, 11:52 PM
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By the way, be sure to give us details on the 'riveting', as I was looking at my 4 X 18 kit thinking that's too many rivets to be 'dabbing' with a toothpick. I need some details...

Oh, was the source for the syringe Micro-Mark or someone else? Of course, being diabetic since age 7, I'm sure I have a few of them around...
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Old 04-02-2008, 05:57 AM
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I think the syring, and more importantly syringe tips, came from Lee Valley tools. Something like $5 for a set of 10 tips that get really tiny--hard on the fingers to even shoot the glue, so I dillute it a wee bit.

Most of the rivets are recessed, not raised, so I'm using Dremel & drill.

It helps quite a bit that Gordon came through in an ASAP/mayday rush to whip up a sustainer fin pattern for me with rivet detail--the version in the kit was for the scale fins, but his actual fins are skinnied down roughly 25% (semi-scale, not pure reduction) and so had no pattern included.

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