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TinTin's Rocket

Chriske

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Chriske

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Built a few rockets in the past, most of them printed. And all of them were 'real' rockets.
This time I'll build a rocket out of the '50 era. First man on the Moon were actually Tintin, captain Haddock and Bobby, the dog.
It's a very beautiful machine I think. Most of the parts already printed.

In fact the trigger to make this rocket was a friends challenge to grow hot peppers in a not so 'logical' way....🙃 The challenge is to grow his peppers upside down. The question came from a group of people busy growing only peppers. Purpose is to make the challenge as original as possible. Well my friend Yves asked me to make him this rocket, and he will grow yellow peppers. These peppers will exit at the bottom of Tintin's rocket and represent the flames during launch.
At the same time I will make a second one to be installed at our observatory.

This is how far I got right now. Completely finished it will be about 1.7m high.
Printing time for these 8 parts about 14 hours. All is done in 'SpiralVase' modus using a 1.5mm nozzle.
Still to do the 3 landing feet + 'wings'. For these feet I need to finish the printer in the picture aside the rocket. I can print 490mm with it, I like to print these feet in one piece.
Before red paint is applied a little sanding is needed to remove a few irregularities.

To be clear on the matter, there were in fact a few other rockets before Tintins landing, I know, I know. But these rockets did not land but crashed on the surface like Georges Méliès rocket. It crashed in the Moon's right eye...😄.

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I love it too. I want one!

Belgium’s finest export. As a complete Tintin nerd since infancy, I’ve always said that Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin would be my specialist subject if I ever applied to go on Mastermind. I’ve always thought it strange that in almost every language the captain is called Haddock, but in Afrikaans he’s Sardine!

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I'm in the process of building fireball XL5. I was intending to fly it off a 45deg launch rail. However, when I threw the numbers at Rocket sim it would only get 15m off the ground.  Here's the tail section on the printer.

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1 hour ago, Steve Clay said:

I'm in the process of building fireball XL5. I was intending to fly it off a 45deg launch rail. However, when I threw the numbers at Rocket sim it would only get 15m off the ground.  Here's the tail section on the printer.

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I had this as an Xmas pressie in the 60’s wish I’d looked after it as they are worth a few Bob now!

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10 hours ago, jock1958 said:

I had this as an Xmas pressie in the 60’s wish I’d looked after it as they are worth a few Bob now!

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Wow that is cool and yes it'd be worth a bit. I had the XL5 with little wheels on the bottom.

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On 22/06/2021 at 20:10, JamesF said:

That looks fun :)

Surely Cavor and Bedford beat Tintin to the Moon though?

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Fun...?? That is an understatement James...😃

Well, about the first men on the moon. I always thought Tintin was the first. he actually 'landed' on the moon. If I'm not mistaken all other have crashlanded on the Moon. Even Jules Verne did not land on it. Just read the book(not completely). He launched his rocket using a 300m long canon. To return to the Earth he needed a second canon stationed on the Moon. Imo there's zero chance there was the same canon waiting there to do the job...🤭

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1 hour ago, Chriske said:

Fun...?? That is an understatement James...😃

Well, about the first men on the moon. I always thought Tintin was the first. he actually 'landed' on the moon. If I'm not mistaken all other have crashlanded on the Moon. Even Jules Verne did not land on it. Just read the book(not completely). He launched his rocket using a 300m long canon. To return to the Earth he needed a second canon stationed on the Moon. Imo there's zero chance there was the same canon waiting there to do the job...🤭

In First Men On The Moon  Bedford returned to Earth using the cavorite just as they had flown to the moon; Cavor remained on the Moon.  I think in Jules Verne's story the intention was to use a free return trajectory back to Earth  although not 100% sure. 

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On 22/06/2021 at 19:10, JamesF said:

That looks fun :)

Surely Cavor and Bedford beat Tintin to the Moon though?

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Ah Cavorite, still got a jam jar full of the stuff and they were definitely the first to land on the Moon in a semi controlled way...

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