It will be somewhat difficult to cut and form the cardboards into the desired shapes, so I’d have to be careful. Because my model rocket ship will be one hundred percent cardboard, I plan to put different components together using glue. Right now, I’m thinking that a hexagon prism will be the best shape for the body of the rocket ship since I don’t have any carboard tube that is big enough. My main goal is for people to recognize that my final product is a model of a rocket ship when they see it.Īfter deciding on what to make, I looked up some cardboard rocket ships created by other people to have an idea of what I will be making. If I wasn’t doing mechanical engineering I would choose aerospace engineering as my major.Īn actual rocket ship model include many different intricate features that cannot be recreated using only cardboard, so I aim to keep my design as simple as possible while still having the main features that a rocket ship should have. There are many things that can be made out of cardboard, but I decided that I want to make a rocket ship model because I have always been interested in aerospace and space exploration.
So I thought to myself, “why not use the cardboards that I already have and make something cool out of them, that way I can save money and time obtaining materials”.Īfter I was done obtaining the material, I thought about what I can make out of cardboard and decided that a small rocket ship model would be a good choice. As I look around my apartment for recyclable objects and materials, I noticed that I had an excessive amount of cardboard boxes just laying around waiting to be thrown away.