The decals worked, the contrast is okay on the darker red.
This many fins on a BT-20 tube model makes glue fillets a chore. Sanding and smoothing the tight areas was rough.
The fin decals were printed so you couldn't apply them on both sides of the same fin. It still looks good with a decal on one side of all five fins.
The payload section needed some masking tape for a tighter fit of the nose cone and adapter shoulders.
All that considered, it's a good looking small payload model with too many fins.
Looks good. Love the last paragraph. What about the bare balsa in the payload section? What kind of payload was intended? Gotta prep the chute long and thin with the shroud lines coiled up from bottom to top like a candy cane. Big hands and a bt-20 is always a challenge. Ken Caldwell.
ReplyDeleteBack in the olden days grasshoppers were one of my favorite payloads but we don't do that anymore. This would be a fun novelty carrier - plastic figures, toy cars, that sort of thing. Though with a couple small vents in the clear tube it would be perfect for a little altimeter.
DeleteHi Ken,
DeleteThe bare balsa could be blackened with a Sharpie. I think good rocket payload could be an altimeter. That 12" chute is spiked, folded over once then wrapped with shroud lines to make it narrow enough to pack into the BT-20 tube..
Hi Openroad,
DeleteThis would be a good altimeter model. I haven't launched a grasshopper in years!