Retro Rocketeer

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Silver Rockets

Back in the 50's when I was growing up I fell in love with the starships of the TV serials. I have decided to recreate some of these as model rockets and relive some of the innocent excitement of the mystique they engendered. Please note: These rockets are not exact scale copies! Not a single curve, line, angle, or configuration is an exact copy and is not intended to be. If something is, it is only coincidental and not intentional as only the style is being reproduced.

Construction of these models is of foam and cardboard with the usual balsa or ply fins. A BT 60 with a foam overcoat in the shape desired. The foam adds a tremendous amount of stiffness to the tube so the tube can be of the lightweight cardboard type rather than heavy cardboard or phenolic. The outer body will have a FRP or other plastic shell to help with point impact damage but please note these should not be handled roughly. I plan to offer these as custom order type kits. The kit will contain 1 Ballistic Body, [foam] an appropriate nose cone, fin material and small items. Assembly, glue, paint, are the responsibility of the purchaser.

Current Availability

Murphy's Law has struck Silver Rockets in that the molds while being rebuilt were damaged, unfortunately damaging the master also. /-( Until I have the opportunity to rebuild them Silver Rockets is on hold. My apologies for yet another setback. I have at this time [02/06] redone not one but two masters, having had time to consider the original model, a larger version for mostly HPR and a smaller size in the BP range [ good for those wanting a desktop model only] was decided on. Hopefully the molds may be realized this year.