USS Atlantis
Hey, Carl (or Sheryl)... is there any plan to produce laser-cut fins for the old Estes USS Atlantis kit? I'd very much like to clone it. I know that another vendor has a "refit" Atlantis kit, but I really want the original, and I really don't want to have to cut out those fins by hand.
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:confused: I don't remember the fins being anything to talk about from a difficulty standpoint. Seems to me it was one actual fin and a couple of standoffs for the two tubes. |
Plus the disc thing, which appears to be made up of four partial circles. I can make smooth curves, but only with the application of copious four letter words.
Also, I'll have to come up with decals... |
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Ah, yes. Forgot about the other balsa bits involved in that project. Yeah, that part was a pain. Especially since the scans were pretty rough. I built a PDR USS Atlantis a few years back. It used the JimZ scans and it came out.........pretty rough. :rolleyes: :D |
Well, there are the balsa sheet sections making up the superstructure, two of which being curved might benefit from a little tenderly applied, well focused stimulatd radiation.
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Indeed, that's what I was hoping for.
Lemme tell you a story. In early October, my best friend died, claimed by cancer a few days before his 47th birthday, and a few days after mine. He wasn't a rocketeer... in fact, owing to his health issues and my late return to the hobby, he never got to attend a launch. But he knew I was into rocketry. You can't walk in to my office and not know I'm into rocketry. His widow came by the other day and handed my wife a handful of cash. She said he had always wanted to get me a rocket as a gift, but didn't really know much about buying one, and while he was sick he didn't have funds to do so anyway. She asked that I use the money to buy a rocket, and that I fly it in his memory. ****, I get choked up just typing that. It's going to be hard to do the countdown... She gave me too much money. I only fly low power, owing to field size limits, my own cheapness, and the huge pile of LPR engines I presently own, and she gave me enough to buy pretty much any LPR kit I might want with cash left over. I asked my wife what she suggested I do, and she said to get a sci-fi inspired rocket, as my friend would have enjoyed that the most. My very first thought was the Atlantis... I always loved it in the catalog back in the day, but never bought one. I figured, no problem, someone has a kit or parts or something... but other than the "refit" version, nobody seems to have the fins. And of course, I want this to be PERFECT. He was my best friend, after all. So laser-cut fins are what I'm hoping for. If I just plain can't get it, the USS America reproduction is my second choice. That, at least, I can get. But USS Atlantis is just cooler. Whatever I build, I'll fly it, as I believe all rockets should fly, but only sparingly. Special occasions, you know? |
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I have it and it's only $6.00 http://www.excelsiorrocketry.com/pr...?id_product=408 |
Somehow I figured you had the decal. Now it's just the balsa that's holding me up. I may have to break down and cut it myself... gah.
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The balsa doesn't look that hard to do. I could cut it on my band saw. But it looks like Carl is working on it. |
The Atlantis has been on my list to build for a very long time and the balsa fins have been the hold up. I have the PD kit some where in my pile. but again the fin issue , I just might be a little lazy . But if Carl offered a set I'd buy two without a second thought. I did place bids on ebay this weekend for two kits offered but price was $$$$$$$$$$ over the top.
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