I was thinking about an idea for a cheap and easy (really quick) nose cone:
-Make the cone shape out of paper (poster board) - the original cut out would be a packman shape with tabs on each side of the 'mouth'
-form the cone with tabs both bent into the middle of the cone (the tabs are instead of overlapping the edges to avoid an uneven flat spot along the seam of the cone)
-then fill the tip with expanding foam (and weight if necessary) place in a tube (to minimize use of foam) and fill around the tube with foam. Then place in a bulkhead and coupler at the base
-I would fill and sand the seam and then fiberglass
I'd like to try this for a 5" cone about 18"-20" long because it seems to me to be easier than shaping pink/blue foam. I think the biggest problem would be getting an imperfect cone due to the seam.
Any ideas? anyone ever tried this on something over 3"?
Thanks for listening, Jonathan Battat