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Thanks for the kind comments, nice to see someone taking an intrest. LES thrust structure complete. construction

Slow progress, boy...things take alot longer when building from scratch, alot more trial and error, remaking parts two or three times.

Going up

Moving along.

Antenna cap with horizon scanner cover.

Beginning the excape tower. Building the pylons. Useing a tecnique learned from Darkantz, a model weapons designer. Antenns fairing cover. Stability wedge.

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recovery sec covering

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Got the divider and parachute trays done.

Hey bud...I haven't seen any new photos in a while, must be busy busy making aaaalllllll those dimples. I'm sure you've probably thought of this but how about building a hundred or so, go work on some thing else for a while then come back to them, kinda switching on and off, should break up the...

Well I have to get some shingles first, but I'm going to look for some really small black anodized screws if I can find some that will determine wich way I'll go. I also think covering 2/3rds of the main with shingles and leaving 1/3rd exsposing the stringers would be a nice touch. I'm not...

Wanting to move on to the excape tower I need to get the foundation done first, so making outer skin for the recovery section and trimming out the top for the antenna to set in properly, started experimenting today, making and test fitting parts.

Got the aft bulkhead complete. I doubled up on the paprer so there was a little warping so to counter this I applied a strip around the exterior to straighten the edges, I found a photo that shows this. I used shelf tabs as a temporary hold ins

Actually I'm going to have to make the BH and heat shield removable, I will be detailing the inside and don't have anywhere to store these large parts so I will be assembling and (desembling) it often. I plan to start the detailing next in the recovery section once thats done then I'll glue in...

Bulkhead progress Don't worry there PK I've read your postings on other models and your cretiqueing is always spread out evenly,99.9% of the time I agree with you. I've seen models on here that are absolute works of art and others that I would be embarresed to post. When using written word...

Aft bulk head comming together. Excellent...guess whats on TV wile postig this, The Right Stuff

Ok gentlemen this should end any debate. After searching the net for a couple of hours and looking at hundreds of mercury earth view photos, this one and ONLY one photo of earth view through the mercury scope I found. I'm not wholy convinced it an actual photo but more of a training photo. It...

Thats cool...a girl that enjoys the same hobbies. Better hang on to her. :thumb: My wife has 0 intrest in what I'm doing. But we've been married 26 yrs this May so.:wink:

Whoa! Thats big, hows the wife feel about hanging giant model parts on the wall?