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Fortunately for you, the intrepid first-time cloner, there are a good many rocket plans online. The trick is finding the right one, waiting out the extremely long download (unless you have a fast connection), then printing them out for ready access at your workbench.. There are essentially three formats in which plans come: TIFF, PDF, and JPEG. A TIFF file is quite large and mostly obsolete, and it takes a considerable amount of time to download. PDF files are smaller, but a special viewer for them is required (which, like Adobe Acrobat, is available for free). JPEG files are generally not used for the instructions themselves, but are used instead for the decals (more on that later). A few sites exist with plans for the vintage Estes and Centuri rockets. The largest of these sites is JimZ Rocket Plans. It has plans for many, many kits produced by Estes and Centuri, along with Estes rocket plans published for free or in their Model Rocket Times. Another site is to try is the r.m.r. sunsite archive. It has a collection of several plans, some of which are "Glory Days" plans, some of which are not. The ones that aren't from that time are still quite neat, anyway. A third good site is the Bomarc FTP site. It is found at: ftp://www.bomarc.com/ROCKET/. Once you have your plans all downloaded and safely on your hard drive, the next step is to collect the pieces needed for assembly. Back to Cloned Rockets Central |
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