More Midgets
Since the picture above was taken, I've
wrecked a few and built several more.
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Baby Midget
Having built all upscales, I wanted to do a downscale and retain the
staging ability. While the Min Brute Midget (Estes 0840) is a
BT-20 based variant, it's not a true downscale since it maintains the
length of the origina.
The Baby Midget is a BT-20 based downscale of the original K-40 Midget.
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Midget552
The
Midget552 is a simplified version of an earlier BT-55 based upscale
shown here. In the earlier case, the
booster had scale diameter, and
the rocket included a staging coupler and vents for gap staging.
The 552 uses a single BT-20 for the booster forgoing scale, and employs
tape-together staging. It's much lighter in the back end and has
turned out to be a very frequent
flier for me.
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Thridgets
Here's a brief look at all three Thridgets
together.
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Thridget80
Also called Midget80, this upscale was built for the ExtremeBP event
held in conjunction with the DARS launch in November of 2006. It
stages 3 24mm boosters to 3 24mm sustainers. 3 D's to 3 E's makes
for G power 
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Thridget70
My original Thridget, this 2.2x upscale stages
three
18mm boosters to three 18mm sustainers.
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Thridget60
This
Midget variant stages three 13mm boosters to three 13mm sustainers.
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Tiny-Midgets
These MicroMaxx powered Midget downscales are upper-stage-only, but
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Quidgets
These upscale Midgets were all built using Quest tubing.
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MidgetT40
This upscale Midget was bashed from a Quest
Big
Betty and flies on 24mm motors.
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MidgetT35
This rocket was built using Quest T35 tubing and flies on 24mm motors.
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MidgetT30v2
The red, white and blue upscale Midget uses
Quest T30 tubing and
joins the older MidgetT30 of the same
scale. Both fly on 18mm
motors.
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Red, White and Blue
Prior to a recent launch, I took this shot showing off my more
patriotic Midgets 
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Free Kit
The K-40 Midget was a common extra in mail order shipments from Estes
back in the 60's.
Here's a scan of an original Free Kit complete with sticker.
Thanks to James Gartrell for kindly giving me this.
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