JCalhoun
Well-Known Member
I've enjoyed designing "balsa kits" that never were.
If you grew up in a certain era you may have wandered down to the hobby store and drooled over the balsa kits for making flying aircraft. I built a few of the simpler kits when I was young and somewhat enjoyed it.
Anyway, as an adult now I have found it a fun challenge to invent new kits that I wish had existed when I was a kid.
When I make anything it is often an iterative thing. Especially true of balsa models that it seems you can always improve. You design it, build it, have trouble covering it and suddenly wish you had designed it differently....
I am closing in on completing only the first iteration of the Orion III Spaceplane from the film, 2001, A Space Odyssey.
I suck at covering the balsa models. With those caveats in mind, what follows is the progress:
If you grew up in a certain era you may have wandered down to the hobby store and drooled over the balsa kits for making flying aircraft. I built a few of the simpler kits when I was young and somewhat enjoyed it.
Anyway, as an adult now I have found it a fun challenge to invent new kits that I wish had existed when I was a kid.
When I make anything it is often an iterative thing. Especially true of balsa models that it seems you can always improve. You design it, build it, have trouble covering it and suddenly wish you had designed it differently....
I am closing in on completing only the first iteration of the Orion III Spaceplane from the film, 2001, A Space Odyssey.
I suck at covering the balsa models. With those caveats in mind, what follows is the progress: