The Flying Wing: A Scratch Design / Build

A 29mm Powered Flying Wing utilizing a Rear Eject Spool 

 

 2026-10-11 Nose Cone

Turned the Nose Cone on my wood lathe from Pine, I glued a couple pieces of 2 X 4 together to make this.​

 

 Also cut the templates for the Wings

2026-10-12 Wings and Tubes

Cut, Sanded and routed the wings... Cut the BT/C-70 Tubes​

 

2026-10-13 ​ C-70 and Wings

Laid out and prepped the C-70 for the fins.​

Poked (70) 0.044 diameter holes through the C-70 for each fin.​

Then injected glue through those holes, wiped the excess glue from the coupler,​

and then glued the wings in place.​

 

 

​Wing Fillet Dowels

 

2026-10-14 Through Wall Gluing

 

Poked (120) 0.044 diameter holes through the C-70 tubes, adjacent to the 3/16" dia dowels. Then injected Gorilla Wood Glue through the holes, incorporated into the fillets. 

 

 

Titebond Quick and Thick Glue Fillets

 

I noticed the C-70 tube was oval, due to the shrinking of the tube due to the glue drying.

I installed the fixture I built that's used to make a C-60 tube oval, basically two wooden ramps. I used these to force the tube back into a round condition while the glue dries. The Nose Cone was insert also to use as a rounding fixture.

 

 

2026-10-15 Sanding C-70 i.d. and installing the BT-70H

Used my home made Bore Sander to smooth out the through the wall glue "rivets".​

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Cut the BT-70H, applied Gorilla Wood Glue onto the outside of the C-70 and Elmer's Glue -All White Glue to the snout of the C-70, and then slid it into place.​

 

After letting the glue set-up for a couple hours I started gluing the BT-70H to the Wing Dowels. The BT-70H was sanded at the glue joints.

 

 

P-40X Warhawk: A Scratch Design / Build

Here's a P-40 Warhawk with an X-Wing configuration.

Built from BT/C-204 tubing and a variety of wood turned pine components.

Features a Rear Eject Spool for the 29mm Motor and 30" Dia. Parachute. Also has an R2-D2 Droid as a co-pilot. 

 

 2026-09-27 Armaments

 

2026-09-27 Preliminary CAD Model and Drawings 

 

Lancer II: A Scratch Design / Build

Rear Eject Pop Pod and 29mm Power​

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Nose cone should be quite a wood lathe challenge at 13" long and 2" nom. diameter​

 

 

 

 

 Transport Gunship: A Scratch Design / Build

Another Internet inspired design / build. Knocked out a quick Open Rocket model and it looks doable.

An oval formed body and tube fins would really add to the realism. Likely will be a standard front eject configuration.​

 

 

 

USS Einstein NCC-10729... A Scratch Build / Scratch Design

Here's a design by Kenny Irvine Brown, a fella that's a member of Star Trek: Ships Of The Line over on Facebook.

So I've added a ring fin to the back of it to make it stable. Should be a fun build.

 

 

The Black Hole Probe Ship - A Scratch Built Upscaled Shorty

Here's a Scratch Built Black Hole Probe Ship (BHPS)... based on a upscaled BT-60. It's got the BHPS look, but it's shorter, 29mm power and a Rear Eject.

I started by building a model of the stock Estes BHPS... then scaled it into the Scratch Build version. Should be a fun build. 

 

2026-09-13 2 Stage Variant

 

G74-4 Composite Motor in the Booster, and a Quick Fuse lit D12-3 in the sustainer.