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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 7:55 PM

Thanks!

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 7:47 PM

Your aim was true!

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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 7:40 PM

The aim was to build a 50s Sci Fi type rocket!

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 7:21 PM

philo426

It looks like the rocket from "Destination Moon" on the way for delivery!

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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 6:56 PM

Those are cool!Nice Job!

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Posted by pennytrains on Sunday, July 31, 2022 6:30 PM

I need to start building things again.  By the time I moved last September, I had destroyed nearly everything (and A LOT more) you'll see in the pictures linked below.  All I brought with me was the incomplete LEM Aquarius and two Estes boosters; a Saturn 5 and Gus Grissom's Mercury Redstone.

https://link.shutterfly.com/rAOpS46H7rb

 

Big Smile  Same me, different spelling!  Big Smile

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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 5:38 PM
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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 5:36 PM

I made it out of a vacuum cleaner extension ,oak mid section that I carved and part of a drop tank from an F-101 Voodoo!Placed it on a scratch built cradle on a Lionel IRBM  flat car!

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Posted by pennytrains on Sunday, July 31, 2022 5:27 PM

I love that rocket car!  Big Smile

Big Smile  Same me, different spelling!  Big Smile

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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 3:22 PM

Yes the single motor MPC era powered unit runs quite well with a 12 unit train!

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 1:50 PM

https://youtu.be/So43BXXnLr0  

There ya go!

Cool!  That's kind of what I do, have multiple loops running so the eye can't concentrate, it makes the layout look bigger.  Wink

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Sunday Running
Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 31, 2022 11:38 AM

https://youtu.be/So43BXXnLr0

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