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2024-01-06 - Estes Pro Series II Panavia (clone)

Kit Review by Jeff Curtis

Estes Pro Series II Panavia (clone) The Panavia was a kit that was available briefly via the Estes web site. It was composed of left over parts from other Pro Series II kits. The Panavia used the same fins as the Argent. The Estes kits are almost never seen, but clone kits are available from Bad Boy Rocketry and Launch Lab Rocketry. This is a review of the Bad Boy Rocketry clone kit of the Panavia. Instructions are minimal and assume you have built other mid and high-power rockets. I ...

2023-12-07 - Animal Motor Works Blue Baboon

Kit Review by Jeff Boldig

I bought this kit from AMW at LDRS 36 at MDRA. They told me it was the first Blue Baboon kit they had sold. It is a blue fiberglass 3 inch diameter kit with a black fiberglass nose cone and fins. It is a dual deploy kit with a 54mm motor mount tube.

2023-10-22 - New Way Squareros

Kit Review by Jeff Curtis

New Way Squareros A relatively new addition to the New Way group of square rockets. They may be square but they fly great. The standard finish makes a great looking pseudo-missile rocket. New Way doesn't give construction ratings but I would say this is a 1 and would make a good first kit. As is usual, you start with the motor mount. The Kevlar shock cod goes under the front centering square and wraps around the engine tube. You have to make sure you get the square centering r ...

2023-10-09 - The not so mean machine

Kit Review by Chris Hurtado

The not so mean machine with a rocket called the mean machine, you’d expect it to growl at you and shake you down for your lunch money. Instead, it’s more like the classic “gentle giant”. One can hardly apply “mean” to simple night. 6ft is impressive though and usually draws a crowd along with my home but launch rig and control. Now, it is pretty awesome how high this gentle giant can reach on an E12-A. Recovery works like a champ, and on its maiden flight had an entire soccer team ...

2022-04-25 - Launchpad Rockets Ready to Launch Kit

Kit Review by Caleb Scott

We used Launchpad Rocket's custom designer to create our own model rocket, it came in the mail two days later and the build quality of it was amazing. We were able to customize the design and engraved it with what we named the rocket, Slicer. It's a little hard to find on google launchpadrockets.com

2022-02-01 - The Launch Pad Anubis

Clone Review by Bill Eichelberger

With The launch Pad possibly in permanent hiatus, I had no way of satisfying my craving for cool scale-like kits. Bummer, but since the website and all the face cards from the kits were still online, I decided to try building something using just the dimensions and kit pics, and settled on the Anubis as my first project. It wasn't until midway through the build that I deciphered the code and realized that "Launch Pad original" meant "something we made up". Still, this was a ...

2021-10-28 - Rocket Development Corporation V-Max Clone

Clone Review by Bill Eichelberger

I spent many years working third shift, which occasionally allowed me to cash in on some really cool late night "Buy It Now" deals on eBay. In this case it was a used nose cone lot, the star of which was an RDC-625 nose cone, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Once in hand the decision about what to build around it came down to the V-Max or the Cardinal. Something about the V-Max spoke to me, so the Cardinal will have to wait until another RDC-625 pops up on late-night eBay.

2021-10-27 - More Rockets Andromeda

Kit Review by John Eric Thompson

The MoreRockets.com products are great reproductions of some classic model rockets that I enjoy building. They bring back great memories of when I was first introduced to the Hobby of Model rocketry in 1976 at a Cub Scouts Space-O-Rama event at the Johnson Space Center in Clearlake Texas. The first kit that was the USS Andromeda, the Alien Explorer, the Super Colonial Viper and the Mach 10 boost glider kit. from MoreRockets.com. They are ...

2021-10-10 - FlisKits Tres 24mm x3 custer

Kit Review by John Eric Thompson

I enjoyed building and launching the 18mm version of the Tres, I just had to get the bigger 24 mm version as well.

2021-09-30 - MRC Firefighter

Kit Review by Bill Eichelberger

Back in the early days of my BAR-dom, I discovered the wonders of Ebay, which allowed me to pick up two MRC kits, the Firefighter and XR-20, on the cheap one night. I was pretty pumped at getting two OOP kits for the price, but when they arrived, the bulk of my enthusiasm disappeared quickly. The XR-20 had body tubes that felt like they were made out of typing paper and stick on decals that might as well have been. The needle didn't move on either bird for more than ten ...