So my flat Big Daddy rocket lawn darted last weekend. I was going to fix it, but I messed up a bit. I had ordered some 3 inch body tube and a bunch of balsa plywood and figured I could scratch rebuild the Big Daddy since I had the nose cone. Cut out my fins […]

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While I was out launching CL Mitchell Photography asked if he could grab some pics. He got some amazing shots of the launches. I also got to shoot off my first Reloadable composite engine. The composite motors are three times as powerful as the black powder disposable ones I have shot before. You assemble them […]

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It is fun to still try. That rocket is my Flat Daddy. Theresa did some cool swirly art on it and I use that stock photo as my avatar on the rocket forum because she is making that giraffe rocket. I wanted to paint the giraffe rocket on the Flat Daddy for fun, because giraffes […]

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Can’t wait till it is done

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Theresa is a painting machine. She gets most of my rocket builds to play with. This Big Daddy I tried to keep really simple with the flat black, but her flair makes it awesome. I will use this rocket for so many launches. I need to learn about it because I will make another like […]

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The Big Daddy is a rocket’s rocket. It just seems so rockety. Theresa took over my first one and I have plywood parts for another one that I hope to use to get my level 1 license. Last night I just had to build one for me to shoot off whenever I want. The fins […]

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Theresa is working on a custom Big Bertha with 9 extra inches of body tube and a 24mm motor mount. She will decorate it an awesome way. Proper epoxy fillets on the fins with some wood filler help. Fins are sanded to be an airfoil. Such a difference between my workhorse Bertha and hers fin […]

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