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     Rocketry Product: Excelsior Rocketry - Honest Goon {Plan}

    Honest Goon - Refinish Part 1, Old Decal Removal (2013-09-09)
    Here's a great small field flyer and a favorite Goony- The HONEST GOON! You can get the decals and plan set from Excelsior Rocketry HERE The builder must supply a Baby Bertha kit, a BT70AJ, a ... [Read More]

    Honest Goon - Refinish Part 2, Decal Removal & Surface Prep (2013-09-10)
    This nose cone section is bigger than you'd think! After the decals were either lifted with tape or sanded off with 400 grit, here's what I was left with. The primer is starting to show, probably ... [Read More]

    Honest Goon - Refinish Part 3, Nose Cone Black Trim (2013-09-11)
    I had to divide the nose cone in 12 equal spacings. A strip of paper was wrapped an marked. This was folded in two, those two halves folded in thirds and sixths. Pencil ticks were made at all the ... [Read More]

    Honest Goon - Refinish Part 4, Black Fin Quarters (2013-09-12)
    Instead of masking and spraying the black, I though I'd try something different. The fins are square with no rounded edges. The body tube is a smooth surface. The Contact Paper just might work ... [Read More]

    Honest Goon - Refinish - Finished (2013-09-13)
        The Honest Goon looks better with the alternating black/white fin quarters. The four spin rockets on the nose cone were drawn to look a bit more 3D. The fin fillet seam ... [Read More]