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While I like the SuperNova Payloader, I still wish that they'd put the Omega back into the lineup.
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02-10-2016, 07:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2016, 01:21 AM by Trident.)
Note that the Saturn V now will have plastic fins. I hope Mr. Boren did the two-piece styrene fins like the Little Joe II.
And I hope I can get the plastic fins for my older 2157 Saturn V kits that have balsa ...
I'm not above begging.
UPDATE: I looked at the 2157 instructions (1999 -- the 30th Anniversary release) on Estes website, and it shows vacuformed fins, built like the Saturn 1B fins. I opened up my 1999 kit, and they are vacuformed. The 2011 catalog on website lists fins as laser cut balsa. I'll not open that kit, it is a 2010 re-issue Estes was selling at the 2010 NARAM in Pueblo, Colorado. I met Mike Dorffler, and he signed the kit -- about a month before his passing. Still not sure what I'll ever do with that kit. Maybe donate it for auctioning.
Anyway, I'm still hoping the new kit has molded styrene fins!
Lee
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02-12-2016, 11:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2016, 11:46 AM by Rich Holmes.)
According to John Boren on YORF, they're molded styrene and not vacuform.
I just picked up on a rather startling statistic. Just 6 years ago there were only 7 Skill Level 3–5 kits in the catalog — in fact they were all Skill Level 3. This year there are 27!
That's a trend I like.
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Let's hope that trend continues Rich!
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