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Model Rocket Photo Gallery
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photos. These are in sort of reverse chronological order. Being a photo
gallery, yes it takes forever to load. Sorry, but I hope they'll be worth the wait.
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| Andy Tomasch took these pictures of my nostalgic "Rockets of the 20th
Century" launches on January 1, 2000. Above is the Simplified Vostok, whose plans are on my plan page. At right is my 1/130 scale Saturn IB. |
| Andy Tomasch, co-worker and HUVARS member earned himself a spot on the US team for next years world championship team this usmmer (1999) with his Paper Tiger IV, a vellum parachute duration model. | |
| I finally finished this model in November of 1999, after drawing the plan, submitting it to Sport Rocketry, and getting it published in
April of 1996. Next step--fly it! |
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HUVARS held its Falling Leaf Finale contest on September 2, 1999. Chris Timm accidentally E-mailed these images to me:
 Here are the Plastic Model Conversion entries. More or less left to right: Mark Sinicki's Mig 21, Howard Saules's Jupiter C, Mark Simpson's F-16, Roger Wilfong's Mercury-Redstone (a 1/200 scale model powered by a Micro-Maxx engine), Doug Scobel's Vostok, My own Lunar Module, Yitah Wu's Battlestar galactica thing, and Matt Cartwright's Lunar Module (ascent stage). Under the towel in the background is Mark Chrumka's Long March 2. |
Matt's Lunar Module ascent stage lifts off. |
 Mark's Long march lifts off. Moments later it crashed into the trees. |
SMASH hosted their "Custer Buster" meet in the Spring of 1999, just a week before the National Sport launch/Mick Williams Memorial Scale Meet. The Fort Custer meet helt the first NAR sanctioned Future/Fiction Scale event.
| This Nova is my Future Scale entry. The model was built with BT-5 tanks and BT-60 and BT-56 large tubes. So it's just 1.637" in diameter and well under a foot tall. |  |
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| Above is a photo I took with an Estes Astrocam back at the Falling Leaf Finale in 1998. This view is from the Jackson Community College field, looking southeast over the JCC campus to the Michigan Space Center, our regional space museum. A closeup of the museum below shows its gold dome and the Mercury-redstone that stands by the entrance. |
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| This is Dr. Mark Vincent. he was a grad student on the JASPR sounding rocket payload in the late 1990's. He was kind enough to stick my NAR number (NAR 26985) on the Black Brant IX that launched the payload. Here he is with my model, with the accurate, scale NAR numbers, back in 1998. He's at the South Pole now. |  |
| This is my brother, Bob, with his pink Redstone. I found a "juvenile" book on rockets and missiles with a spread of crude painings of several missiles in outlandish colors. The book said it was "checked for scientific accuracy by Wernher von Braun." Good enough for Sport Scale, so Bob built this model for NARAM. |  |
| My Black Brant IX model. Jeff Vincent took this picture. His site also has my last NARAM R&D report. This model won 4th place in Giant Scale at NARAM 37 in upstate New York in 1995, 2nd place in Sport Scale at NARAM 39 in Arizona in 1997, and fourth place in Sport Scale at NARAM 41 near Pittsburgh in 1999 (Alas, it didn't place in NARAM 39 in Muncie, Indiana in 1998). I actually built this model over five straight days for a regional meet. I never made it to the contest because the last 2 days of constrution happened during the meet. I guess this means you can build a fairly competitive, if not top-notch NARAM scale model in 40-80 hours (this is the only model I could even guess at the hours I put into). There are a lot of things I could have done better on this model that are too small to see in this launch shot, but plenty obvious up close. |  |
| This is the best model I ever built, back in the mid-1980's. It's a 1/69 scale Saturn I. It took first place inSport Scale at NARAM 35 in Frederick, Maryland in 1993, and first place in Scale at NARAM 36 in Houston, Texas in 1994. Unfortunately, it landed on an old asphalt runway, and got scraped up rather badly. And the clear matte finish (Testors Dullcote) has yellowed over the years. The model is now on my bookcase, scrapes toward the wall. My brother, Dan, took this picture. |  |
Here's a NASA photo.
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| When I was in grad School, I discovered the reduce/enlarge feature of the EMU Physics Department copier. It turned out that if I enlarged an Estes Orbital Transport 175%, I could build it with BT-60 and BT-55. The model is amazing on a D12-5. Vern Estes himself took this picture of me with the model at NARAM 33 in 1991. |  |
| This is my BT-20, 1/42 scale Astrobee 1500 model, built specifically for NAR Peanut
Scale. When I was 31, it won me my first trophy ever. Later that year, it tied for third place in Peanut Scale at NARAM 33 (1991, near Chicago) |
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| Here's a model of my Saturn IV, a pseudo-scale model taht finally did with the Design of the Month contest. The plans are on my plan page, and in the latest Sport Rocketry magazine to boot. |  |
 My 1/70 scale Soyuz, photographed around 1980. |
 My Old Reliable posed for an Estes "Design-fo the Month" contest entry in the early 1970's. It didn't win. |
 Prominence MB: Bob Alway's 4-engine cluster lifts off in the late 1960's. 16mm movie frame
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