Projects
Japan's Baby Rocket
Baby was Japan’s first two-stage rocket to demonstrate flight stability, telemetry, and payload recovery in 1955. It laid the foundation for the country’s space programme.
Baby's First High-power Rocket
Dalton's Journey to Certification from build to launch
Black Brant II
An extremely successful sounding rocket
FSI Black Brant II Kit
A project to document and preserve the Flight Systems Inc. (FSI) Black Brant II model rocket kit.
Japan's First Sounding Rocket
Japan's first large post-war sounding rocket family, developed at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University of Tokyo, and tested at a new beach launch site in Michikawa, Akita Prefecture
LauncherOne
Virgin Orbit air launch to orbit system - HPR model
Opensource Rover
The JPL Open Source Rover is an open source, build it yourself, scaled down version of the 6 wheel rover design that JPL uses to explore the surface of Mars.
Phoenix
The AIM-54 Phoenix is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was primarily designed for use with the U.S. Navy's F-14 Tomcat.
Rakete Sprenggranate
8 cm Aircraft Rocket
White Sands V2 Build
Updates
Ejection Charge Well
Sep 20, 2025
This is a design I have been iterating on since 2018 and have finally arrived at a simple and repeatably reliable system.
Baby Rocket - LPR Test
Apr 30, 2025
Windy weather has delayed testing the high-power Baby Rocket but has provided a good test for the stability of the design using the low power version.
Dalton Certifies Level 1
Jul 27, 2024
Dalton has been flying model rockets for many years. He has always been with me building and launching larger rockets and has been looking forward to getting certified for high-powered rockets.
Classic FSI Black Brant II Kit
May 11, 2024
I have a classic FSI Black Brant II kit from the 70's/80's that I'm going to build. The kit is in great shape and I wanted to do it justice by building it to the highest standard.
Building the Phoenix
Oct 23, 2023
It became one of those projects that I really connected with and poured a lot of myself into. I'm really proud of the result and get great satisfaction seeing it on the shelf.
The Rover Returns
Oct 23, 2023
Building the JPL Open Source Rover during the lockdown Why am I building the V2 JPL Open Source Rover?
Building the Launcher One
May 17, 2023
There was a great amount of excitement for the first orbital launch from the UK. and I was really taken by the aesthetics of the Launcher One. I decided to build a scale model, and here we are.
Builds
Full Scale Baby-T
High-Power 1:1 scale model of the Baby-T rocket.
Project: baby
Baby's First High Powered Rocket
Dalton's first high powered rocket was a success and achieved Level 1 certification.
Project: bfhpr
Black Brant
Building a Black Brant
Project: black-brant
FSI Black Brant II (1:8 scale)
Buildig a classic kit and preserving the design for the future.
Project: fsi-bbii
Prototype 38mm Launcherone
A scale-accurate model of the interesting yet unsuccessful Launcherone rocket (designed for 38mm motors).
Project: launcherone
Phoenix Missile Build
Building a half-scale phoenix missile proved to be a challenge.
Project: phoenix