Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe

BAR & Cloning Links

Home
Estes & Centuri Kit Lists
Building Tips
Ye Olde Rocket Plans
Ye Olde Rocket Forum
BARCLONE
Kurt's Decal Page
Moldin' Oldies (Parts)
Spaced Out Rocketry
BAR & Cloning Links
Vendor Links
YORS Auction
FREE WebMail!
What's New / 04-19-08
About YORS
Contact Us

Ye Olde Rocket Plans  A website with copies of plans for out of production model rockets from a plethora of manufacturers.  The majority of plans on there can not be found elsewhere on the web.  This site was originally inspired by Ryan McDaniell.

Ye Olde Rocket Forum  A great place for you to talk to others interested in the good old days of rocketry.  There are many people here to offer you help in finding an old rocket you're looking for, or to clone an old kit you always wanted.

BARCLONE  Craig McGraw's site offering lots of original rocket designs and decal artwork.  If you have an original design you'd like to share, contact Craig on his site to have it submitted.

Moldin' Oldies  Started by Mike Schmidt and now owned by Sirius Rocketry, this company makes cast resin parts to let you clone many Centuri and Estes kits.

Arley's Spaced Out Rocketry  Arley Davis' company that makes cast resin parts to let you clone some Canaroc and Estes kits.

Ninfinger Productions  by Sven Knudson.  An excellent resource of old model rocket catalogs online.  He also has a guide for matching up body tube sizes according to their part number.

JimZ Rocket Plans  by Jim Zalewski.  You can find a lot of Estes and Centuri plans online here at this site.  Clone your old favorites.  If you have some plans he's missing, send them over so he can scan them for the rest of us to enjoy.

Tango Papa Decals  If you're cloning an old rocket, it's not complete without the decals.  Tom makes great reproductions of the classic Estes & Centuri kit decals.  He also sells a Mars Lander kit in three different "up" sizes.

Buzz Nau's Model Rocket Pages  Buzz has some of the old Centuri Technical Reports scanned and online for your enjoyment.

Leo's Leisure Site  Leo shows us his astounding collection of model rockets. He has data and pictures for almost all of his kits.  Very cool!

A Shasta's - Model Rocket Home Page  Another great source of old model rocket plans online.

Willy Logan's - Cloned Rockets Central  Willy has a lot of great information put together here for helping the BAR out in reproducing those old classics.

Semroc Astronautics Corporation  Lot's of great recreations of classic kits from many of the old and departed rocketry companies.  Excellent quality Centuri-size parts as well.

Uncle Mikes Rocket Shack  Mike offers great prices and great service on many model rocketry items.  Lots of parts to choose from for the cloners out there.

Centuri Memories  Doug Holverson's site dedicated to all things Centuri.  He has a nice parts cross-reference page there for helping with cloning Centuri kits.

Holverson Designs, Inc.  Another site from Doug Holverson.  You can buy Centuri ST-8 and ST-10 body tubing from him along with some other inexpensive parts.

Excelsior Rocketry  Fred Talasco's company that makes nice repro and upscale decals for your rockets.  He does custom work as well.

EMRR  Essence's Model Rocketry Reviews.  Find great reviews on rockets, old and new.  There's plenty of info here to keep you busy reading for days.

Rockets of Yesteryear  by Steve Rogers.  Lots of scans of old Centuri header cards.  He's also got some old rocketry ads scanned.

Paul Graf's Estes 1/70th Saturn 1b Clone  Paul shows his clone of this kit and also offers custom cloned wraps for sale to clone your own.

Estes Educator  Estes website that offers most of its technical documents in PDF format.

Matt Stum's Template Widget  A great program to help you make paper transitions, fin alignment guides and miter guides.  Check out the rest of Matt's site while you're they're.  You'll find lots of other neat stuff.

Pad 17  by Don Adamson.  You'll find lots of info here about collecting rockets, including an older list of what kits are going for.

Strib's Rocket Stuff  Here you will find more Centuri Technical Documents online and other reports by Jim Barrowman.

Balsa Machining Service  They offer balsa reproductions of the old Estes and Centuri nose cones and transitions.

Advanced Rocketry Group, Ltd.  A great source for Estes equivalent tubes including the BT-30E and BT-101E.

Totally Tubular  Another source of body tubes including Centuri size tubes and BT-101.  Jim Fackert has the largest selection, unfortunately the service is extremely slow.

Thrustline Aerospace  They offer a lot of very nice "parts packs" for cloning a number of the old classics.

Excelsior Rocketry  They offer some very nice decals for the old classics.

Flis Kits  Another source for Estes-size body tubes, motor mounts, cones and adapters.  They also have many unique design model rockets available for sale.

Rakety - planky  Some cool European model rocket designs. Thanks to Andy Hobbs for finding this site.

Sunward Aerospace  Plenty of parts to help clone old kits along with many original designs of their own.  They even have slightly modified versions of some of the old Canaroc kits.

Launch Magazine  A great new magazine that covers all aspects of model rocketry.  Lots of great info for BAR's and collectors.

Model Rocket Shop  A UK hobby shop that has a boatload of OOP Estes kits available for sale.

Wayne Hill's Rocketry Blog  Lots of great info for making rockets out of paper/cardstock.

Back Next

Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe © 1998-2008