My plan if Kerry wins

I have yet to see that B-10 kit in a completed stage...

...and with more like *you*...

I *never* will!

:o)

That's probably better than flogging yourself with a cat o' nine tails! :-) Bill Shuey

I have seen the kit finished, a couple of them as a matter of fact. The builder was a retired Glenn L. Martin engineer who had started at GLM when they were finishing the 6 aircraft for Siam (Thailand) and doing some final work on the Dutch contract. He did one in Siamese markings (aircraft were overall white) and a Dutch ship and an Argentinean aircraft if I remember correctly. Nice work too. I've got one of the last 1/48 scale kits out of Lone Star's run sitting on the shelf, hope to do it in U.S Markings.

Bill Shuey

Okay...

Bush wins: try to work on the High Planes Mustang X. It might allow me to concentrate on something for four years other than politics.

Kerry wins: try to work on the High Planes Mustang X. Anything might be doable.

Nader wins: try to work on the High Planes Mustang X. The world will be going to hell anyway.

Election remains up in the air for a month: that's one place the High Planes Mustang X will never get, so I'll have to work on something else.

Mark Schynert

Hmm...

If Kerry wins, I'll commence down-scaling a 1:72 Retriever Rocket to 1:144.

If Bush wins, I'll go straight to the 1:2500 Reliant that finally (finally!) arrived yesterday.

If Nader wins, I might as well start scratch building an Akira in

If Ohio becomes the Florida of 2004, I'll have to put a bunker around the house with a pillbox to take care of any journalists that try to enter.

I have the parts to a Retriever Rocket with some delta wings salvaged from a Lindberg Avro Vulcan. I'm thinking about making a 1:72 fourth stage to the Manned Orbital Launch Vehicle. Do you know anywhere I might find some drawings of it that I could scale up? Thanks,

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

If Bush wins, how about having Texas based Squadron give us a subscriber special. It's been way too long.

Craig

Politics has no place in modelling - ignore the vote and do all three!! :-)

Jimi

You'll have to ask Squadron about that. They're not part of my plan because I don't control what they do.

Ultimately I do plan to finish all three, so all that's really at stake here is the order.

Well, if you can't find his book, _The Exploration of Mars_ (I don't know if he has drawings, but he used photos from Disney), Rick Dunning did a drawing of it (plan view only) for Ron Miller's book, _The Dream Machines_ and Jon C. Rogers did a plan, side profile, and bottom view for his and Jack Hagerty's _Spaceship Handbook_. Be warned, both those books are in the

Photo reference:

I'm planning on using 5/8 inch dowel (yes, a bit bigger than half the 1 1/8 inch diameter of the kit). The toughest part will be for me to carve the nose. Fortunately, the dowel comes in a length that leaves me enough for practice, for a cargo version (merely a long bullet shape), a tanker (a longer bullet), and the ferry.

Thanks for the links. I have a copy from the Ron Miller book; I'll have to look up "Spaceship Handbook" Considering the nose caps, have you thought about the prefab nosecones for model rockets like Estes? THey come in a lot of sizes and might be of some help.

Me, I'm looking for some cones as well, offset so that one side is a right triangle instead of uniform all around the circumfrance. Sort of like this:

/\ /| / \ / | /__\ /_ |

Front Side

Ever come across anything like it in your travels? (I do have four but I'm not giving up on that Revell XSL-01 - I want to build that sometime next spring) I need several to cap off "booster stages" for a larger static scratch-built launch vehicle (no particular type, just rather generic) to carry a kit-bashed spaceplane. The bottom diameter of the cones should be around a 2" diameter and the height should be no more than 3". I figure at least four and hopefully more to get me going. Thanks,

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Yes, the Spaceship Handbook is oriented towards model rocketeers (although they admit that things like the rotating space station are probably more suited to a static display). From it I learned a wonderful word, ogive, for these rounded cones, and that their silhouette is a section of a large circle centered somewhere off the centerline if the nose cap. Alas, I don't know if the companies have a standard to specify the type of ogive I'd want, or if I should wander up and down the aisle til I find something that "looks right."

If it's a straight-sided cone, have you thought of rolling your own from sheet plastic? Tape one edge along a ruler and wrap around a conveniently sized disk. (From my experiments this morning, a convenient cylinder would work better, you could tape the ruler to it.) From my experiments with paper this early in the morning, I can only make it work with two sheets, meeting again on the opposite side.

Looks like you're doing the A-36 :-)

Jimi

Yep. Went back to working on it yesterday. The P-40 will just have to wait.

Perhaps in 4 years time, Kerry will try again and then you'll have an opportunity to finish the P-40 :-P

Jimi

Oh, please, please do Mr. Kerry. Maybe he'll have signed an SF

Thanks for the tip! Worst case, I can use them as masters to make molds for a little resin casting. I'll look them up presently.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

And the address would be??????

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger