Not Enough Room? TIP

Occasionally you are stuck with a short model without much room for a parachute and wadding.
If you have a plastic nose cone you can use the hollow interior for most of your parachute and shock cord packing.

Cut away most of the shoulder leaving the tie down "lug". Be careful in the corners, don't start a tear in the plastic.

Notice the parachute is not tied to the nose cone lug, but 1/3 the way down the shock cord. This is important.

The shock cord goes in first.
This is what will help pull the parachute from the hollow nose cone.

The chute goes in next, just set it in and on top of the loose shock cord already inside.

When the ejection goes off, the nose cone is ejected.
As the shock cord extends the parachute is pulled out of the nose cone.
With the attachment point 1/3 the way down the shock cord, the parachute will be tugged out of the nose cone.

I did make the Orange (actually a 1" longer Quest Cobalt) for engines larger than an A6-4.
Twelve flights and twelve parachute deploys.