gna
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While reading about the early days of the V2 at White Sands, I learned about the Viking Rockets. I especially like the elegant looks of the early Vikings, so I've decided to build one. I have a big piece of BT-55 left over from a different project, and stumbled on a bunch of balsa nosecones in the clearance box at my local hobby shop.
The early Viking rockets were very narrow, only 32" in diameter:
So if I divide that by 1.33" (BT-55 size), I get 24.060, so close enough to 1/24 scale. By happy accident, that is also the scale of the Estes V2 kit, so it would be possible to have a White Sands stable. The later Vikings scale out somewhere between 1/33 and 1/34 scale in BT-55 tubing.
While looking for info, I stumbled across this site: https://www.nielspapermodels.com/vik7.htm , which builds into a 1/96 scale rocket, so enlarging by 4 times should help me scale my rocket out.
I also found https://www.postwarv2.com/viking/viking.html, which has a many pictures as well as some larger models.
I developed an Open Rocket file on the Viking 7:
It looks good, but I'm thinking I'll cut the fin tabs separately and glue them so they don't break off.
View attachment viking 7 Sounding Rocket.ork
The early Viking rockets were very narrow, only 32" in diameter:
So if I divide that by 1.33" (BT-55 size), I get 24.060, so close enough to 1/24 scale. By happy accident, that is also the scale of the Estes V2 kit, so it would be possible to have a White Sands stable. The later Vikings scale out somewhere between 1/33 and 1/34 scale in BT-55 tubing.
While looking for info, I stumbled across this site: https://www.nielspapermodels.com/vik7.htm , which builds into a 1/96 scale rocket, so enlarging by 4 times should help me scale my rocket out.
I also found https://www.postwarv2.com/viking/viking.html, which has a many pictures as well as some larger models.
I developed an Open Rocket file on the Viking 7:
It looks good, but I'm thinking I'll cut the fin tabs separately and glue them so they don't break off.
View attachment viking 7 Sounding Rocket.ork