What would be a good scale build that has not been done

[chris m]

Hello looking for imput . What would be something cool to do but not something everyone has done yet . Thinking in 3-4 inch so not sure what the scale would be yet .

 

[iqsy59]

Does your proclivity lean towards military missiles, scientific rockets, or spacecraft, may I inquire?

Cheers,
Michael

 

[chris m]

I would be open to all . Maybe more so with space or science

 

[EXPjawa]

Explorer 1.

 

[chris m]

Yes very cool . And it could be a full scale at 60 inch long

 

[PeterAlway]

Hello looking for imput . What would be something cool to do but not something everyone has done yet . Thinking in 3-4 inch so not sure what the scale would be yet .

The MR-1 was a Soviet upper atmospheric research rocket from the 1950's, sort of a Russian version of the Aerobee, with a liquid upper stage and a clustered solid booster. At launch, the upper stage exhaust fired through the space between the eight booster motors. I don't know of anyone in the US who has built one.

 

[Dave A]

Done rarely and a model rocket kit out there but a Falcon 9 with Dragon capsule, 3 clear fins and legs the deploy shortly after the main.

 

[PeterAlway]

The MR-1 was a Soviet upper atmospheric research rocket from the 1950's, sort of a Russian version of the Aerobee, with a liquid upper stage and a clustered solid booster. At launch, the upper stage exhaust fired through the space between the eight booster motors. I don't know of anyone in the US who has built one.

Here's a link to a page with some photos: https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/forum13/topic8704/?PAGEN_1=8

 

[dhbarr]

Done rarely and a model rocket kit out there but a Falcon 9 with Dragon capsule, 3 clear fins and legs the deploy shortly after the main.

I keep waiting for someone to print up deployed legs with clear fin centers, should be plenty of surface.

Do the first re-used one in 4in!

 

[OverTheTop]

What about a Thunderbird SAM?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(missile)

Lots of images if you google "Thunderbird missile"

I have seen one down here at Point Cook RAAF Base. I am tempted to do one someday, but I have others in the queue first (starting with a Nike Hercules I think)

 

[qquake2k]

What about a Thunderbird SAM?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(missile)

Lots of images if you google "Thunderbird missile"

I have seen one down here at Point Cook RAAF Base. I am tempted to do one someday, but I have others in the queue first (starting with a Nike Hercules I think)

That is one crazy looking missile!

 

[LW Bercini]

What about a Thunderbird SAM?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(missile)

Lots of images if you google "Thunderbird missile"

I have seen one down here at Point Cook RAAF Base. I am tempted to do one someday, but I have others in the queue first (starting with a Nike Hercules I think)

Is that a different missile than this one from Fliskits?

https://www.fliskits.com/products/rocketkits/kit_detail/thunderbird.htm

 

[OverTheTop]

Looks to be the same! I didn't realise anyone had a model of that.

 

[Incongruent]

Has anyone made a model of the Lockheed X-17?
Large fins, varied body, cool paint pattern, interesting history.
Should be a fairly straightforward build.
Specs are in Alway's Rocket's of the World.

As such there are likely many models of it already.

An internet source: https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/x-17.html

 

[RocketFeller]

Has anyone made a model of the Lockheed X-17?
Large fins, varied body, cool paint pattern, interesting history.
Should be a fairly straightforward build.
Specs are in Alway's Rocket's of the World.

As such there are likely many models of it already.

An internet source: https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/x-17.html

That would be great with a 7.5" first stage, about ten feet tall with a 2.6" third stage would be pretty close to scale.

 

[chris m]

Some cool ideas MR 1 or explorer 1 may be it

 

[terryg]

The Squirt is a great looking rocket that I have never seen being modeled:

https://www.astronautix.com/s/squirt.html

 

[aerostadt]

John Boren was looking for a concept awhile back as shown on this thread for a concept idea.

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?60022-Need-Concept-Scale-Model-idea&highlight=navaho

 

[aerostadt]

The German A-9/A-10, which has been done a few times and every now and then I think it about it. An example can be found here.

https://www.rocketreviews.com/descon-projekt-amerika-louis-schroeder.html

 

[aerostadt]

I think John Boren went on to do a TRF thread for the Navaho, which has been done a few times, but not too often. John's model was top notch in scale, but I am not sure that it flew well. There is a simpler Navaho plan out there by Tim Wilson that I have thought about up-scaling.

https://archive.rocketreviews.com/reviews/all/navaho_g26.shtml

There is some information here about the real Navaho.

https://www.aeroconsystems.com/Navaho.htm

 

[Mushtang]

I keep waiting for someone to print up deployed legs with clear fin centers, should be plenty of surface.

Do the first re-used one in 4in!

The launch would look silly since the Falcon doesn't launch with the legs deployed, but if it floated down in the same orientation that would be cool looking.

Not sure how to best deploy the legs when the parachute ejects then again the clear fins would ruin the look a little bit. I'd still love to see one.

 

[tomsteve]

anyone scale the empire state building yet? a schoolbus?:kill:

 

[Bat-mite]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004FC7NJ0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[LW Bercini]

anyone scale the empire state building yet? a schoolbus?:kill:

I did an Empire state rocket, complete with Kong and 2 biplanes for NARAM-26(?)

 

[Bat-mite]

I did an Empire state rocket, complete with Kong and 2 biplanes for NARAM-26(?)

Whoa! Any pics?

 

[dhbarr]

The launch would look silly since the Falcon doesn't launch with the legs deployed, but if it floated down in the same orientation that would be cool looking.

Not sure how to best deploy the legs when the parachute ejects then again the clear fins would ruin the look a little bit. I'd still love to see one.

Sillier than what? All the other sorta-scalish compromises we make to get stable fliers without tiny gimbals?

 

[iqsy59]

The MR-1 was a Soviet upper atmospheric research rocket from the 1950's, sort of a Russian version of the Aerobee, with a liquid upper stage and a clustered solid booster. At launch, the upper stage exhaust fired through the space between the eight booster motors. I don't know of anyone in the US who has built one.

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I like that one!

Cheers,
Michael

 

[aerostadt]

This is an idea that I have thought about, but haven't got around to, yet. There was a TV series that was shown back in about the 1960 time-frame called "Men Into Space". In the show they put a spacecraft with slight wings on top of the Atlas.

 

[aerostadt]

A plastic 1/48 scale model of the Men Into Space is available at the link that follows:

https://www.fantastic-plastic.com/men-into-space-type-1-spaceship---catalog.html

It remains to find an Atlas model that is close to this scale. If you go to page 2 of the TRF thread below, you will find that rocketguy101 gives instructions how to build a 1/45 scale Atlas from a BT-80 tube, which is about 2.64" diameter. I am thinking that the 1/45 scale will be a close enough match to the 1/48 Men Into Space upper spacecraft to make the entire vehicle. To the best of my knowledge this has never been done. I would think that this completed model would be eligible to compete in the NAR future fiction category. I wish rocketguy101 offered a kit. If so, I wouldn't hesitate to buy all the parts to finish this model.

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?45347-Mercury-Atlas&highlight=atlas+mercury

 

[tomsteve]

the muppets 'pigs in space' swinetrek rocket.

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