Does anyone have a list of recommended glue, paints, and other materials needed to finish this rocket?

Maximillian Shell made Maximillian

Paint the Estes Mosquito with reflective paint or coat with reflective aluminum duct tape and you will be able to track with the most powerful 13mm motor they make. I did and still have my first one from back in the 1980's.❤

Dude by the time you sais I don't see anything it had already hit the ground

This not the best Max scene - the David Goliath scene just after this even better. "Call him off Reinhardt"

The Alpha III is a piece of cake. I started with the original Alpha back in 1972. Balsa nose cone and fins. The fins had to be cut out, sanded, and glued to the body tube. Everything had to be sanded and painted. After spending a week building it, I lost it on the third or fourth flight. I am now trying to get my 10 year old grandson into model rocketry. But things have changed. I grew up on a farm, and had plenty of space to launch rockets. Now you have to drive over 50 miles to a place where you can launch, then 50 miles back. The price of gas makes it an expensive hobby. I use a Harbor Freight digital caliper to measure things. I use Elmers glue. Carpenters glue doesn't come in a bottle with a pinpoint tip like Elmers white glue does. It the same glue. You need that tip to make fillets for fins and launch lugs. If you really wanted to use carpenters glue, I suppose you could fill an Elmers white glue bottle with it. A slight curve in the plastic fins won't hurt anything. Very important not to get any glue inside the launch rod lug. If it dries in there the rod won't go through it, and you can destroy the lug trying to get it out. Having a damp rag nearby to clean glue off your fingers is very helpful. I have cut out the center of the parachute before, it can help, but it increases decent speed slightly, which can actually be a good thing on a small rocket, it won't drift as far. I mostly use nylon parachutes now. I put baby powder on plastic parachutes before launch to keep them from sticking together. A small wooden dowel can help push the parachute, wadding, and shock cord down into the body tube. I rarely ever build a rocket from a kit anymore, I design my own. I'm not concerned about what they look like. I paint all my rockets orange and white, to make them easier to see, both in the air and on the ground.

I always had the same problem with the Astron Streak in my early years of rocketry. Even using a 1/4A engine. Whoosh! Gone. Even if you could see it,when the ejection charge kicked it would vanish.

I can imagine this making it to a World for *Kingdom Hearts* Along with *The Black Cauldron* *John Carter* *The Lone Ranger* *Prince of Persia* *Moana*

Leopold!

About 40 years ago, I was in elementary school, and we had movie days every once in a while. They actually showed that movie. I was like 8! Good lord, I'll never trust a red robot!

I built the Mosquito in 1975, my very first rocket. Mine was painted sky blue with a red nose cone and one red fin. Launched it with my older brothers that were all launching their Mini-Berthas, X-Rays, Honest Johns, and Mars Landers. I launched it on an A3-4T. Clear perfect day, just like this video, but we could not find it. Went back to the park several hours later with my Dad and we miraculously found it before the high school football team started practicing on the field!

It achieved orbit.

I heard people saying they were traumatized by this movie. I am now just seeing clips of this film for the very first time as an adult in their 20's and I can definitely see why this would scar children.

That "well" at the end...classic! Is he going to start looking for his mini or is he goin' home for supper?

Yep. I ran that profile back in the 70”s with similar outcomes. Nope actually 66’ 67ish

Man even in the late 70's this is still impressive for a robot like Maximilian

Now what does this remind me of... Oh, yes. David and Goliath - the classic confrontation. Only in this case...David is overmatched. That is until David decided to use his hidden drill arm to tear out Goliath's evil robotic heart and chuck him into space. Now that's upholding the honor of the old outfit.

I lost the sticker decals for mine.

Finally going to build mine for my son. Had the rocket for years and was scared to buil it.

The black hole swirling in the windows in the background, beautiful but deadly, it even adds more to the scene.

Whoever designed the robots for the movie must have been a time traveler... Imagine that thing coming down the corridor... just silently hovering towards you...

Maximillin is why robot AI is a bad idea

"Such a nice little robot ... he's harmless" - yeah right!

Hell yeah

We need a Maximilian with improved weaponry like having his arms move inward. That way, V.I.N.CENT would have been destroyed.

Dark memories from 1979 in the cinema in Rayners Lane

Maximilian is the "jellyfish uap" looool

Maximilian is the ultimate symbol of evil, it proves that Dr. Reinhardt was an evil scientist obsessed with the Black 🕳️ Hole. It was poetic justice that he was imprisoned in Maximilian from all eternity just like he enslaved his crew as mindfulness zombie robots. As Vincent said " The bigger they are,the harder they fall". 👹👾🚀🛸🤖😮

Tootaaloo! 😱😁😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸

Haven't watched yet. Posted 7 years ago and only 3 likes. I'm predicting major suckage.

0:12 poof.. gone lol

That rocket was sucked into the Twilight zone lol

😢

Looks like a great marketing strategy 😂

I'm surprised Maximillian didn't terrify me. I saw this when I was just 6 years old and I thought he was so cool.

Supposed to be Disney's first PG movie. If I knew then how they would abuse that slippery slope, I never would have seen it as a kid.

Excelente y oscura película, este filme se parece más a la literatura de ciencia ficción "dura" tipo Philip K. Dick o Frederik Pohl que Star Wars u otros filmes similares de la época.

OK so for all the Maximilian fans out there. Go look at the Robot Computer Deep Thought from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, the TV version which came out in 1981. I think they were fans of ole Maxy.

"he's harmless"💀

Thanks good info!

The thumbnail gave me inspiration for my own

GONE

Maximilian is what you get when you mix Darth Vader and the Crimson Dynamo on the blender. (and a bit of Carnage to spice things up).

I love it when he corkscrews Tony Perkins.

"He's such a nice little Robot, He's Harmless." Gonna put a capital "NO" on that.

I built the whole thing and then realized I didn’t have the 🧨

“Such a nice little robot, he’s harmless…” Don’t underestimate VINCENT. 🤖

The ending of this movie was a disappointment. It's as if the writers suddenly stopped getting paid, so they finished the movie with this quasi-religious mess, no explanations or anything, with Maximillian somehow combined with the evil scientist and watching over what I assume to be hell.

What do you do when your center rings do not slide over? My rings do not fit. Any suggestions? Same build by the way. Thanks!

Max had a motorized grapple before The Bat.