Editing Scale model (section)

====Rockets and spacecraft====
{{Main|Model rocket}}

Model rocketry dates back to the [[Space Race]] of the 1950s. The first [[Model rocket#Model rocket motors|model rocket engine]] was designed in 1954 by [[Orville Carlisle]], a licensed [[pyrotechnics]] expert, and his brother Robert, a model airplane enthusiast.<ref name=pyroguide>{{cite web |url=http://www.pyroguide.com/index.php?title=Black_powder_rocket |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905045721/http://www.pyroguide.com/index.php?title=Black_powder_rocket |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-05 |title=Rocket (Black Powder) |publisher=PyroGuide |date=2010-04-10 |access-date=2012-07-06 }}</ref>

Static model rocket kits began as a development of model aircraft kits, yet the scale of 1:72 [V.close to 4&nbsp;mm.::1foot] never caught on. Scales 1:48 and 1:96 are most frequently used. There are some rockets of scales 1:128, [[1:144]], and [[1:200 scale|1:200]], but Russian firms put their large rockets in 1:288. [[Heller SA]] offers some models in the scale of 1:125.

[[Science fiction]] space ships are heavily popular in the modeling community. In 1966, with the release of the television show ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', AMT corporation released an {{convert|18|in|cm|adj=on}} model of the [[Starship Enterprise|Starship ''Enterprise'']]. This has been followed over the decades by a complete array of various starships, [[shuttlecraft]], and [[space station]]s from the ''Star Trek'' franchise. The 1977 release of the first ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'' film and the 1978 TV series ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' also spawned lines of licensed model kits in scales ranging from 1:24 for fighters and smaller ships, to 1:1000, 1:1400, and 1:2500 for most main franchise ships, and up to 1:10000 for the larger ''Star Wars'' ships (for especially objects like the [[Death Star]]s and [[Super Star Destroyer]]s, even smaller scales are used). Finemolds in Japan have recently released a series of high quality injection molded [[Star Wars|''Star Wars'' kits]] in [[1:72 scale|1:72]], and this range is supplemented by [[resin kit]]s from [[Fantastic Plastic Models|Fantastic Plastic]].