Like this sci fi rocket

[brockrwood]

Paint job could be tough. Needs nose weight I think.

 

[brockrwood]

So you have to put a boat tail on each end? It is hard to model rockets that don’t have a cylinder as a body. What is the shape of this rocket called? It is vaguely cylindrical but it continuously tapers from wide at the middle to narrower at both ends.

 

[Back_at_it]

I have an old junk Estes V2 that I was going to use to build something similar to this.

I figured I could use just enough body tube to connect the nose and tail cones and that should give me the approximate shape

 

[lr64]

That shape deserves to be modelled more or less accurately. Fake a lathe and turn it out of a chunk of balsa, then split lengthwise and hollow it out. Or make a frame and plank it. Just make sure the fins are stiff and the pods on the ends are light.

Could also be carved and wet-sanded from foam. Recommend Highload 60 or Plazamate, as they can be sanded to a very smooth texture.

 

[GlenP]

Similar body shape on the TRF logo cardstock rocket:

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...-pemtech-trf-logo-rocket.144695/#post-1764799

 

[ReynoldsSlumber]

Made a Tintin rocket once, lathed solid balsa with basswood fins, about 15" long. No launch lug, instead tower-launched. I think the motor mount was 24mm? You can see it not fully inserted in the first photo. This model wasn't very "scale" in its shapes and proportions; others have done more accurate ones. As you can see from these post-flight photos, I didn't account for the rear ejection happening at speed. Regardless, a fun model indeed!


Note that the Tintin cartoon rocket is included among several fictional and proposed rockets on the cover of The Spaceship Handbook by Jack Hagerty and Jon C. Rogers. Its Tintin rocket page includes a photo of a model.

 

[neil_w]

There have been several threads and/or builds of this rocket in the past: https://www.rocketryforum.com/search/591584/?q=tintin&c[title_only]=1

 

[Capt. Eric]

Mash up a V-2 kit with an Estes Protostar kit (similar pods on the fins). But actually, you can just use the V-2 and some small nose cones.

 

[lakeroadster]

Everyone loves the TinTin rocket!

 

[aerostadt]

It has been done over on Rocket Reviews, too.

https://www.rocketreviews.com/descon-tintin-michel-demey.html

https://www.rocketreviews.com/public-missiles-pml-little-lunar-express--by-gary-sinclair.html

 

[CrownUK]

Have a look at apogee components.
How about this Kit from Klima of Germany.
Klima EXA .
I’m in the UK. And often by their kits, they are far superior to Estes in every way. I have made one of these and I have another one in a box as I enjoyed making it that much I plan to do a different colour.

They are a great kit to build with a mixture of quality vacuum formed parts and conventional tubes .

You could definitely Tin Tin this one !

 

[ReynoldsSlumber]

There have been several threads and/or builds of this rocket in the past: https://www.rocketryforum.com/search/591584/?q=tintin&c[title_only]=1

Oh dang, lookit this beaut by kalsow

 

[GusGrissom]

The rocket is cool looking. I like the dog in the spacesuit. What if he poops in there?

 

[lakeroadster]

The rocket is cool looking. I like the dog in the spacesuit. What if he poops in there?

What if the humans poop in there? Same story.​

 

[GusGrissom]

Hold it in til we get to the next gas station?

 

[PhlAsh]

Have a look at apogee components.
How about this Kit from Klima of Germany.
Klima EXA .
I’m in the UK. And often by their kits, they are far superior to Estes in every way. I have made one of these and I have another one in a box as I enjoyed making it that much I plan to do a different colour.

They are a great kit to build with a mixture of quality vacuum formed parts and conventional tubes .

You could definitely Tin Tin this one !

I have a Klima EXA build thread on here, but they've changed the kit, so some of it no longer applies.

 

[kuririn]

Snowy, Tintin and the Captain are all wearing astronaut diapers.
Professor Calculus has it all figured out.

 

[Cape Byron]

Model Minutes made a kit. It even had 3D instructions.

https://www.rocketreviews.com/xflr-7-3389.html

 

[lr64]

I'm looking at the air tanks on those space suits and wondering if they're not getting awfully hot or awfully cold.

 

[OverTheTop]

There is a great build of this on the Australian Rocketry site, by Nic Lottering. Serious size too. Too bad the site has gone dark.

 

[brockrwood]

I didn’t know about the Tintin comic until I saw this sci fi cover art and you guys explained it to me. I will have to read about what Tintin did on the moon.

 

[GlenP]

I didn’t know about the Tintin comic until I saw this sci fi cover art and you guys explained it to me. I will have to read about what Tintin did on the moon.

The comic was written in the early 1950s but the author did quite a bit of research to incorporate a lot of the current thinking of the space flight technology at the time. He had them lie on their stomachs instead of their backs for launch to better tolerate the high Gs for example.