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he’ll stick two more motors in the nacelles and fly it backwards as well!
he’ll stick two more motors in the nacelles and fly it backwards as well!
Length is definitely your friend when you go Skwewy. that’s the down side here.Looks very cool. I see a potential concern that the fins are so far off to one side. @BABAR likes to say "Symmetry is overrated" and he has lots of successful designs to prove it. I wonder if there any tricks to doing this sort of thing successfully that he might like to pass along.
I was cleaning up some leftover odds-n-ends and accidentally made this:
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It really looks like it ought to be something. Maybe like this:
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Yes. Yes it does.It really looks like it ought to be something. Maybe like this:
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I am not a scale dude. I think your model looks great just as pictured above. Unless you are going into a competition (which in the U.S. for scale models is what, once a year? Maybe other events I don't know about) the only person you need to impress is you.I've been doing a bunch of stuff with Space Shuttles recently. Since I haven't had enough enthusiasm to continue work on my 1:150 scale one, I'm thinking about going totally the other direction.
So instead of a big fancy hand crafted shuttle, here's a little silly one made from off the shelf parts. It's BT-5 tubes for the orbiter and the SRBs, and a BT-50 for the tank. Flies on 1/2A-T or A-T mini motors.
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Big time extra points if the rest of the rocket glidesExtra points if the shuttle glides.
There are like 20 good ideas in there. With some tweaking and a good paint job it could be fantastic. I might beTorellian Invader Mk II.
You know, that thing where somebody decides to reboot the series, and they tell the art department "make it look kinda like the original, but do your own thing"
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It has some great visibility though. Kind of the AMC Pacer of the Sci-Fi Star Fighter genre....I miss this thread. Hey @Jeff Lassahn, got anything else cooking?
There are like 20 good ideas in there. With some tweaking and a good paint job it could be fantastic. I might bestealingborrowing"getting inspired by" some stuff in there.
The front is vaguely reminiscent of the ships in UFO that had one ginormous missile on their nose.
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Ah yes, here we go:
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Yours, though, looks good, whereas that ship in UFO always looked ridiculous to me, even when I was a kid.
What do you call a Pacer with all its windows smashed?It has some great visibility though. Kind of the AMC Pacer of the Sci-Fi Star Fighter genre....
External small shock cord attachment loop ventral tail end (presumably on same side as launch lug.). Just needed to be large enough to link a snap swivel or a cord loop.It is very pretty... if you could make it survive it'd be a winner.
Mylar tape isn’t 100% fire proof, but would help.Aluminum foil tape wrapping around the inside edge of the rear plumes. Offers some protection, looks shiny, and shouldn't be too hard to clean either.
Biggest risk is those tips snapping off.
Trying out different lengths for the interplanetary ship.
The original -- longer -- and no really lets stay _way_ away from that reactor longer
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Currently my favorite is the really long one.
Also thinking that maybe the radiator fins on the rear should be a ring instead of panels. Real spacecraft always use boring easy to make rectangular panels, but rings are cool.
Yes, I mean No, I mean Maybe...I miss this thread. Hey @Jeff Lassahn, got anything else cooking?
Ether scoop???
you could build a sky blue boom and stick a heavy scale or super scale shuttle craft or a Tholian Webb ship at the front.
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