1. Estes 1/100 clone:
Attached the styrene wraps to the body.
Primed and basecoated the upper body prior to final assembly.

2. Dr. Zooch:
Cut, tapered, and painted the fins with CWF. Sanding to follow.
Assembled the bell nozzles, cut the antennas and fairing pieces.
Primed and basecoated the upper body section.
Finished assembling the tower. Woo hoo!

3. Fliskits:
Painted the fuel tubes before gluing to the motor mount.
Cut and tapered the fins. Glued the paper skins on. Assembled flight fins.
Glued the paper fairing to the fuel tubes and aft section.
Primed and basecoated the upper body section.
Finished one side of the tower, three more to go.


A note on the towers: Dr. Zooch kits are "ant-scale", not necessarily true scale, meaning they give the appearance of the real rocket. Thus the Zooch tower is larger in diameter than the much bigger Estes model. The four support struts are also much shorter than scale.
My first attempt at the Fliskits tower was a failure. The rods were so thin that I couldn't even pick them up with my tweezers. Gave up and assembled the easy option paper tower. After cooling off for a couple of days I tried again, but with thin music wire instead of the plastic. One side completed, we'll see how it goes.


GlenP, thanks for the pdfs but I was unable to open 2 of the 4 attachments. Adobe Reader gives an error message about email attachments might be encoded improperly. No worries, I'll be building the Zooch kit stock and commenting about the pros and cons at the end.
See you in a few days!

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