This rocket is an homage to those little pot metal cap rockets we used to play with back in the day.

Like way back in the day

Back when you could throw a little metal object, shaped like a bomb, and when it hit it exploded, and nobody even cared.

Before helicopter parenting was a thing and only weirdo's played soccer.

Yeah... getting long in the tooth. I'm betting some of you folks don't even remember these.

I started out building a true to concept scale OpenRocket (OR) simulation. It was so short that stability was an issue, even with considerable nose weight.

Stretching the body made it stable in OR, and adding a launch lug made it even cooler.

Then upscaled that model from BT-50H to BT-60 and made it rear eject with a 29mm motor.

There's something old school Sci-Fi looking about it... which I find appealing.

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Those little "atomic cap bombs" were great.
I still have a few in a drawer somewhere.

Your upscale is WAYYYYY COOL !
One would have to be born in the 70's or earlier to remember these.

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I had a couple of these all-metal "cap bombs", just like the one described in your post, John. What a great homage to a great toy of our youth! (I was born in 1961).

I also had some of the (later) plastic variants of these, where the body was mostly plastic but the cap-striking portion of the bomb (basically the nose cone) was metal. This variant was more "swooshable" when I just wanted to play with a cool-looking rocket toy, but the lower weight (and the difficulty of getting the toy to come "straight down" when you threw it up in the air) meant a lot of misfires...the all-metal version that you've modeled here was almost a guaranteed *BANG* when it came down and hit the sidewalk/driveway!

I haven't thought about these toys in 50 years. Thanks, John, for the new design, and the walk down memory lane!

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John Simmons a.k.a. "Lakeroadster"
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My Fleet with Build Data: Lakeroadster's Rocket Shop

Mom and Dad took us to a Clint Eastwood movie on vacation one year. When we got home I spent the next week walking around squinting a lot and pretending these were dynamite. I blew up a lot of the neighborhood that week. Mine were the plastic ones, but I remember the metal one. They just didn't dare give one of those to Dave and I. We had enough dents in our skulls.

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Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Mini Aero-Dart, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion

Unflown: F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Jayhawk, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Microsonde 3 Payloader, Aerobee 300, Cyber III, Scrambler

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John Simmons a.k.a. "Lakeroadster"
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My Fleet with Build Data: Lakeroadster's Rocket Shop

This is great! I love this! I rember having one of these. Oh, and a cap gun.

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Ever see the video clip where the two little boys are taking turns whacking each other in the face with the step-on garbage can lid? Yeah, that's us, but somewhere in the clip there would be farting and giggling.

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NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Mini Aero-Dart, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion

Unflown: F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Jayhawk, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Microsonde 3 Payloader, Aerobee 300, Cyber III, Scrambler