Is it a bird? Is it a... Oh.. Wait.. Yeah.. It's a bird - sort of. It's the Ballistic Chicken!!
This brave little bird has now put in three flights on an Estes B6-4. With a nice heavy beak, it reaches a respectable altitude.
Flown a couple of weeks ago at an MMRG day, everyone got a laugh :)
After it's last flight, a small 'ding' appeared in the top of one of the fins. A bit of filler and a quick spray will have this looking like new (I'm just glad that I saved some of the custom-mixed paint I used!!)
I know, I know... The Duces wild is supposed to be everyone's first cluster - and that's why I didn't want one :P
36" of BT60, pointy nosecone on the top and a rounded 'bertha' nosecone on the bottom. Two motors are mounted in the out-board pods with ejection charge venting through a small piece of BT05 - recovery via a 24" home-made mylar parachute that pops out the top. Video - watch it!
I am now the proud owner of a 1lb bag of powdered Titanium :) and what a sparkly motor it makes!!
Flying on a G89 Ex motor - KNO3/Sorbitol with 1% RIO and 10% TI.
60mm post tube airframe, plywood fins, balsa nosecone & MAD for apogee deployment. The 'Big Rocket' has been through the wars - it's been a trooper and served me well. Rebuilt after a ballistic landing (forgot to arm the electronics D'oh!) and then shearing the shock cord and busting a fin on landing, it's time to retire it to the recycling bin!
The Big Nuke (2.8" airframe) is a super flyer. One of my biggest scratch-built rockets so far.
Performed well on Estes D & E black powder motors, but it really zips on an Aerotech SU E. Unfortunately, the second flight on the Aerotech motor saw a nice big zipper after a bonus long delay :'(
I'll get around to fixing it some time - it's too good not to try!!
I've wanted a V-2 kit for some time now and recently found a good range of different scales on the Aerospace Speciality Products website. I purchased the 13mm kit - the smallest they offer. Here's the blurb from their website:
The V - 2 ("Vengeance Weapon 2") is perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most infamous, rocket ever built. Designed by Werner von Braun for the Nazi war effort during WWII, the V - 2 was the world's first large liquid-fueled rocket. Originally designated the A - 4, thousands were built by prisoners during the early 1940s. After the war, many captured V - 2s were flown by the U.S. as well as the Soviet Union. Despite its' horrific inception as a weapon of destruction, the V - 2 was the forerunner of all the large liquid-fuel rockets which were to follow.
At just 7 3/4" tall, this model is true to scale and features a balsa boattail, balsa nose cone and laser-cut basswood fins. Flies on mini A motors.
I have started work on a Type 30 kit released by 'The Launch Pad'. One of the more unusual aspects of this kit is the paper nose cone extension to give it the proper profile.
The kit includes a Mylar parachute and additional balsa for the detail - small 'launch guides' are positioned near the nose cone.
The rocket still needs more work. The final shaping on the nose cone, a little filler between the two lengths of BT80 tube and it will be ready to paint.
Rocketry 
