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I'm quite happy about the thread drift! I had forgotten the name Oracover, which I'd first come across in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Reading about the various coverings, I was reminded of the "old school" method of covering body tubes with model airplane tissue, which was shrunk smooth by applying butyrate dope or nitrate dope. Looking up the self-adhesive Ultracote Trim online, I was glad to see that it comes in numerous colors, which would be great for rockets as well. The heat-shrunk Monokote might also be a good body tube covering.
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I think it is a lot easier to work with than MonoKote. Evidently MonoKote thought so too because they eventually came out with their own low temperature covering. I don't know if it is as stiff as MonoKote or more like Ultracote. Talk of covering makes me think about a tangent of the steam punk theme. Use centering rings externally on the BT. Make rib and spar fins and nose cone, or just use regular fins with wood strips on them and a solid cone, then cover it all with Silkspan to simulate a fabric covered airplane.
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Great idea!
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Silkspan is different from Monokote.
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Bill Bigge's rubber-powered rigid airship model (it wasn't a scale model, but it rather resembled the ZR-3 U.S.S. Los Angeles [formerly the LZ-126, before her delivery from Germany]) didn't have individual internal gas cells like a full-scale Zeppelin. Instead, its plastic covering was applied over its balsa strip framework with slightly overlapping seams, so that the entire hull was gas-tight (not needing internal pressure like a blimp, the seams didn't have to be extremely strong).
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