I would love to have more of his drawings especially the high res ones. Missles I am looking for are Nike Ajax, Army Hawk, and any others by Minakov. Anybody know where to get them?The detailed JPG was created by the famous Vladimir Minakov.
Yes . . . LOL !
Dave F.
Someone was kind enough to pass some of his files to me, and I should add that some drawings are findable if you translate "rocket model copy" into Russian (копия ракеты-носителя) and then google image search on it.
I've looked at a lot of Minakov's work (for those who don't know, he died a few months ago, after some years of ill health), and have some thoughts. First, he drew to a greater level of detail than I've ever aspired to, with every weld line, rivet, and metal joint. I confess that I find the results a bit hard to read, as it isn't always obvious what sort of detail a line represents. On the other hand, it makes really detailed models possible. I confess that I've tried to cover more subjects with less detail. I also am quite happy to use his drawings as information sources--you'll see his name in the "sources" section of my drawings.
Anyway, I have a great deal of respect for Minakov's work. I intend to incorporate his information on Soviet/Russian rockets into the next edition of "Rockets of the World," but i'll never match the level of detail he covers in many of those rockets.
FAI WSMC World Championship S7 level detail . . . Several thousand hours of work !
Dave F.
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Wow!
Still Dave, that model is incredible and a 5 motor cluster to boot.
Now if I could just read the Russian books by Minakov the pictures look like the info inside would be a scale rocket modellers best friend, well after Peter Always Art of Scale Model Rocketry. Right now though I have to read the books like my 3 year old, oooh pretty pictures....
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