JimZ Estes Historical Kits

Last Updated: 2026-01-18

Scrapes historical Estes kit information from the JimZ plans archive.

Source

• Website: https://spacemodeling.org/jimz/estes.htm
• Source name: jimz_estes
• Entity folder: kits

Output

• Local dev: data_raw/kits/jimz_estes_kits.csv
• Deployed: uploaded to BLOG_DATA_BUCKET_RAW under the kits/ prefix

Notes

• This is historical data (older catalogs, scans, PDFs).
• Useful for enriching the graph with “legacy” kits not present in current storefronts.

Implementation

• Code: data/platform/src/data_sources/jimz_estes.py