Back a while, Dick posted on his blog an article about the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. It's big & pretty and I very much wanted one! However lacking large sums of money, the skills to fabricate a 38' tall steel and aluminium rocket and nowhere to store it even if I did build one, I was left to sit and stare longingly at the picutres on the web.

A few nights ago, while again looking at photos of the Rocketship, one of the few bulbs that haven't yet burned out went on - an idea! I could lasercut one of these! Make a little one that would fit in my loungeroom, to sit upon my bookshelf!

A good old-fashoned Googling turned up lots of photos and the one thing that I was hoping to find - a good structural drawing :) I was set!!

I vectorised the artwork and dropped it into CorelDraw. Two evenings later (and three goes cutting it out) I have this!

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