Recreating a favorite from the late 1990s - Silver Comet
My oldest daughter gave me an Estes Silver Comet for Father's Day 2000. It was fun to build and fly and has always been one of my favorites, but hasn't been made since 2000. It had a unique nose cone with the raised outline of a "cockpit". The kit is no longer available and my rocket has a cracked balsa fin. Recently, I stumbled across a cool looking modified Silver Comet design with curved fins on RocketReviews.com and was inspired to try building a new version of this classic. This makes the Silver Comet look more like a SciFi rocket from the 1950s or early 1960s. RocketReviews had a RockSim simulation file available, which I was able to open using OpenRocket and export the fins for 3D printing. Initially I was planning to print each fin separately, with fin tabs like the original balsa wood fins, but couldn't find a good model of the boat tail with slots so decided to use OpenRocket to generate the fins plus the boat tail. To do this, I temporaril