This will be a 22.5 inch long BT80 sized Scale V-2. Although there are other flying model rockets being made of the famous V-2 this one is scale and will be scale detailed.
My original small V-2 scale rocket proved to be a great flyer with the scale fins and details. The resin cats nose cone and tail cone proved to be durable after repeated flights. I decided a larger model might be more popular.
Mark Helmick an incredibly talented engineer and maker offered to help with this project by using Solid Works and a 3D printer. So far I have the tail cone and one fin. They are perfect and only need to be filled and detailed with scribe lines, hatches and rivets I’d do by hand. Once this is done I’ll make silicone molds and and cast the production parts out of two part resin. This was you get the scale details and you don’t have to sand off the ripples from the 3D printing. Just clean, primer, and paint.
I’ll have the nose cone today. This can fly on D’s to G’s and will be reasonably priced.
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