Hey Johnny I’ve built the Estes 1/100 series Saturn V, Saturn 1B, and Little Joe II.
I loved em. I think they look great.And I think they have great detail. The length of the 1/100 Saturn 1B is 24" standing on removeable display nozzles not to be confused with the 1/70 scale uprated Saturn 1B # K-29 which is over 3 feet tall.The Saturn V stands 44" while on its removeable display nozzles ( the display nozzles add 1/4" to the flight configuration on both the Saturn 1B and the Saturn V ) Measurements are to the tip of the escape motor. I leave the escape tower removeable as they dont stand up to flight and recovery very well. Oh and decals seemed great to me
Hey, Eric. Got your e-mail. Thanks!
Oh, the insanity!!!
When I was a kid, I never bought the Estes Interceptor. When one showed up on eBay (link to Interceptor auction I put it in my watch list.
Did you click the link? It sold for $169.50! :eek:
Un-freaking-believable.
I got an Astron Sprint from pdrocketry.com (linked on the first page). Very nice! I know I’m obsessed with this kit, but I can’t help it. It’s pretty. 
As I said, I had a ‘fleet’ of these yonks ago. With the PDR kits now available, I can build another fleet! (Well, when I get round to ordering more.) I’ll have the traditional yellow-and-white scheme, an all-white one with the Estes alternate decal set, a silver-and-gold one, and one with NASA markings for good measure. I’ll build the original Estes one in the traditional scheme and keep it for display.
I got the Astron Skyhook models (also linked on the first page) from Rebar Rocketry. Took them forever to send them (some sort of ‘situation’ there), but I’m very happy with the kits. Semroc models are ‘improved’ versions of the originals, and the improvements to the Skyhook are good.
Unfortunately, I can’t build any of these until I get some Aero Gloss Balsa Filler. The local hobby shop doesn’t carry it, and I can’t bring myself (yet) to spend $7.00 shipping on a $5.50 jar of dope. The hobby shop suggested I use white or wood glue to fill the pores. I don’t know… I like balsa filler. It just seems more ‘correct’.
36 years old and still actively building model rockets!
(just the small ones, not LDRS)
Recently completed the Mercury Redstone and the V2.
I sometimes launch mine over water and have a boat to do the recovery. After tons of work on the V2 I had a little ‘mishap’ at launch and it ended up in the water and was completely ruined. Oh the agony!
Great hobby. Wish I lived somewhere that I could launch the really big ones.
Home (Rocket) Depot to the rescue. Nobody uses the paint on filler anymore. Takes too many coats. Just go to Rocket Depot and get some of that Elmer’s Wood Filler. Thin it with a little water and paint it on with your finger. Wait a few hours and sand to a baby-bottom smooth finish.
Yes, the Aero Gloss took too many coats. Looked great, though. I’ll check out Home Despot. Thanks for the lead.
This thread brings back some fond memories. We never had the fancy-shmancy electical launchers. We used cannon fuse…AND WE LIKED IT.
Ohh…Opengrave
If you need any spare parts for the Mercury-Redstone, there’s been one stuck in a locust tree in my back yard since the early 70’s… 
In about 1991, I launched on from the U. Mass Lowell campus. My very first D engine. I had no clue it’d go that far, I thought the rocket was HEAVY!
It came down somewhere towards the downtown area of Lowell… I’ve always wondered what the person that found it thought as it came parachuting down.
I’ve lost lots of rockets over the years, and though I still have my “launch kit”, it’s gathering dust in the basement… someday when the Butlerette is older, I’ll haul the kit out and make some rockets with her.
I’ve ‘decorated’ a few trees myself, thats for sure. I think I have the neighbors trained now - they just leave them in my mailbox.
That’s one of the cool things about launching with a club. Invariably, when you lose a rocket, someone will come across yours while out looking for their own. Even without having any obvious ID on the rocket someone will associate it with an owner and it will get back to you one way or another. Our club even has a specialist in this area. We call him Rocket Dog. (Although there are acutal canines that can perform this function, our Rocket Dog is human.)