MIGHT work on plastic, of the right length...might..
I'm thinking you'd need to trim a modern plastic star crimp hull to the same length as the fired paper hull, and then, it would be a matter of how much "spring back" you got from the plastic, compared to paper hulls.
My GUESS would be it wouldn't work, but somethings that don't look like they will, do, so only trying it will tell you for sure.