This is one of my favorite designs and paint scheme. Brian Coyle brought his to the Orlando ROCK launch a few years back and I...

The short bars center over the low end of the strakes at the red mask line. I should have looked ahead with the launch lug placem...

When removing a mask, pull the tape back over itself and away from the line. The tape is pulled and folded back over itself. For ...

This is not an easy mask. The fin tips and strakes get some different paint treatment. On the right is one of the two fin tips. A single...

This is a dry fit of a fin. Notice the pencil mark on the fin root edge at the break between the body tube and tail cone. Above t...

After the tube was shot and the filler/primer sanded, it was marked for three fins and three long strakes. The difference on this design ...

Before gluing on the tail cone and spraying primer, the shoulder was sanded down to the same outside diameter of the body tube. TI...

I rounded just the tip corners on the fins first before rounding down the long leading edge. The way the grain is running, these fins...

To help prevent the wood from breaking down the grain, start the cut at the corner where chipping can occur. Only one fin half had ...

The root edge of the fins runs down the curve of the tail cone. An easy way to get a start on the curve is to simply trace around the tail...

The engine mount tube has got to be longer than the kit supplied tube. I was trying to do this kitbash using only parts from the two Monar...

The tail cone is made from the nose cone from a second Monarch kit. The BT-20 engine mount tube has to fit inside. The nose cone tip is r...

To get a print of the re-sized fin patterns, Go to FILE, Click on PRINT / EXPORT PDF This window is brought up. Click on AR...

Go to the right under EDIT, go down to SCALE. At the SCALE FROM line, change the  1.637 " (BT-60 dia.) to  1.325 " (B...

I've always liked the OOP Thrustline Arapahoe E design. This picture is from Rocket Reviews: CLICK HERE John McClure did the build a...