On the Facebook group - Rocketry Yard Sale, Buy, Sell & Trade, Garth I. is selling an interesting OOP FSI Javelin kit. Check out the sho...

DWolman is selling some of his kit collection on YORF. This OOP MRC Sidewinder has some misleading cover art. Here's what is shown in th...

From the Model Rocket Fanatics page,  Dean Henson Posted: "I’ve just completed my scratch-built Bulldog AGM 83 A and I thought some may...

On the Rocketry Forum,  Tigerhawk posted a list of Model Rocketry part vendors. I knew most of them, but one did catch my eye. The old Semro...

These are the original Quest igniters introduced in their 1992 catalog. Somewhere along the way I got them in some older Quest engine packag...

On the Facebook Estes Model Rocket page,  James Polles posted this: "A paper catapult glider from Estes." I guess call...

Reprinted from 2010 - OH, ROCKET - TREE Space Modeling Parody of Oh, Christmas Tree Oh, Rocket-tree Oh, Rocket-tree, How lovely is thy ...

The Centuri Argus was an A.T.R.F. (Almost Ready To Fly) model that used the molded one-piece plastic fin can from the Enerjet 1340 mo...

The plastic nose cone base was glued in place with my standby glue - Beacon Fabri-tac. The fabric glue contains acetone and does a good jo...

On the left is the motor mount tube supplied in the kit. The seam gaps were wide and the tube felt weak. I cut a new BT-5 tube to subs...

Here's another one of the X Prize kits, the Gauchito. This entry was from Pablo de Leon & Associates from Argentina. Gauchito mean...

I did use some of the stickers. I thought using the blue bands would be easier than another mask. These blue stripes are translucent ...

Here's a rare look through my patio door. Scotch tape was set on the glass. To see the tape on the model, a wide point Sharpie line ...

I tried to slide in a finishing wand dowel into the engine mount. That tight fit of the BT-20 tube in the plastic centering rings made f...

With the launch lug glued on it got fillets of Titebond M&TG. The BT-60 lower tube, adapter and upper BT-55 tube were friction fitte...

The plastic fin can is made up of four side pieces. The four fins are in halves, split right down the middle. (See the next picture.) W...

With a short BT-20 tube it doesn't make much sense to push and engine block into a bead of glue from the bottom. Then the engine hook...

This model had a lot of plastic in the fin can and nose cone. The rest of the model is standard model rocket parts. The four small ...

Estes produced a series of models based on the XPrize rocket entries in 2005. From the XPrize website: " Since 1994, XPRIZE has desi...