I’ve been playing with Google Sketchup. I suggested to Mago he could draw a rocket and I could model it. He drew out a complete kind of Art Deco design in 20 seconds flat (the entire concept apparently arrived for him in an instant, and watching him describe it with his hands, it seems like he could sculpt the thing with sufficient materials and help). I tweaked and added to the design in 3D with his approvals along the way (though it came to a point where I understood his design in ways I hadn’t before, and I’m going to redo a version closer to his design). The below links to an animation of various angles of it:
http://www.youtube.com/user/narfnarfsillywilly#p/a/u/0/H1vJPMs45Sw
As you may have noticed, this is replete with a ridiculously insecure steel tube chair and jumbo Atari 2600 controller to steer the rocket. The chair, controller and afterburner fire are all taken from models in the Google 3D Warehouse.
You can download the SketchUp file here to have a closer look. To see the different angles in SketchUp, click the tabs with scene names above the display area.