Adventure 2 final design prepared for assembly

Greetings people, Daniel here. I know that it has been about a year since I last made a post. I have been held up by school work and getting very sick at the end of last year. This year I started a bridging course for university. Finally I now have a chance to continue.

In this post I will talk about the progress that I have been going through with my Adventure 2 project. About a year ago, I had been working on design prototypes for my next rocket. Like some of you saw in the previous post, I am using my 3d printer to help with the work. At the beginning of my last year of school, work had to stopped, but after graduation I was able to continue. It was not long before I started running out of filament, it took a couple of months until new filament was ordered and delivered.

During the designing of Adventure 2, there were 9 design prototypes. Each time I printed a part on the 3D printer I would check the prototype for flaws and fit. Then a new design prototype needed to be starts. After having all those flaws and changing prototypes, design prototype 9 was the one that I was happy with and chose as the final design. After every component was digitally drawn on my computer using Auto Desk Inventor, I then printed every one of them out and tested it in a dry assembly and now everything is ready for the final assembly and painting.

Top photo is the base of the rocket, the ring plus elastic band are used to keep the fins in place. This is placed under a cardboard tube, and it already has the motor mount installed but not glued.

Second top photo is the mid section attachment which connects 2 cardboard tubes together to form the whole body of the rocket.

Middle photo shows the top section attachment where short stabilizers connect to. That ring is used to hold them in place, until they are glued in place. This section is placed at the top of the rocket under the nosecone.

Second bottom photo is the nosecone. This is the part of the rocket I have started first. It was printed in four separate components.

The  bottom photo shows a early dry assembly of only a couple of sections of the rocket which was a few weeks ago.

This video shows one of the rocket fins being printed on the 3d printer, a rocket part like that takes hours to print, but I sometimes design other parts while it is under way.