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 Rocketry Product: Estes - Orange Bullet {Kit} (7295) [2020-]

Model Rocket Building: Estes New Kit Poster (2019-10-17)

From TRF, CoModelBuilder showed a poster featuring the upcoming Estes kits: The Orange Bullet is small with tumble/featherweight recovery. Enlarge the picture and you can see the weights on ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 1, Parts (2020-04-25)

The back side of the face card tells the story. I would assume more "Designer Signature Series" kits are in the works. Parts are good quality. Parts re few, typical of a small featherweight recovery ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 2, Fin Fairings (2020-04-26)

The original fairings were called "Body Ribs". I don't know why they were part of the design, maybe to keep the nose cone on at ejection. The nose cone shoulder was short! The fairings have a taper ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 3, Fin Fairings (2020-04-27)

The fairings are glued on the body tube. I used my aluminum angle to be sure they are on straight. The side view shows a gap along the sides from the curvature of the tube. Normally I would sand a ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 5, Ends & Edges (2020-04-29)

Here's the model glued together with the launch lug. I didn't like the nose cone joint seam. I went back, filled then primer/filled it. Probably not needed as the black bar decal would cover most of ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 7, Decals (2020-05-01)

Here's the little sheet of black water slide decals. I don't know why the three black bands weren't wide enough to fill the areas between the fin fairings. I guess it was a good idea to fill the ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Old Estes Plan - The Orange Bullet (2011-03-24)

I came across this plan on the Shasta Plan site and on a publication for sale on Ebay . You can follow the Ebay auction of the 1960 Estes publication: "Model Rocketry" HERE You can see the entire ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Background (2020-04-24)

In March of 2011, I did a post about finding the plans for the Estes Orange Bullet. Here's the post from 2011 -  CLICK HERE Estes is releasing a new kit version of the Orange Bullet under the ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 4, Nose Cone (2020-04-28)

I did as much prepping as I could while the nose cone was being sent out. The main body got a white undercoat and smooth sanding. I probably should have waited, this involved more tight filling than ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Orange Bullet #7295, Part 6, Fin Tip Weights (2020-04-30)

Set the nose "weights" on first without glue. Notice there is a very small angle cut into one corner. This fits against the trailing edge of the fins. There are two sides to the weight pieces. The ... [Read More]