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    STS-1 in 1/288th

    Here is my build of Alfonso X. Moreno’s model of STS-1. Alfonso's model comes in 1/144th scale, but I resized it to 1/288th. (My display space area is limited....) Here are the details: External Tank The ET body was built stock, but I added plumbing, wiring, cable trays and scratchbuilt the...
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    Rocinante build No. 3

    Just finished season 2 of "The Expanse" (the season finale has a cool cameo by Adam Savage...) and so here is my third build of Michael Grosberg's fine design of the Rocinante. For this build, I shrunk the model from 1/100th scale to 1/144th. The model builds into a fine replica off the page...
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    Tachi from "The Expanse"

    There are very few models I want to build more than once, but Michael Grosberg's excellent Rocinante/Tachi is one of them. It's the main ship from the sci-fi show "The Expanse." (And, sorry, but no build thread from me on this one.) A quick bit of history for those unfamiliar with the show or...
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    Rocinante build....

    Here’s my build of Michael Grosberg’s excellent Rocinante, the ship from the TV series “The Expanse.” I’ve just started watching the show, but I enjoy how they stick (pretty much) to the laws of physics. Michael’s design is very good despite the ship’s complex shapes. The model, which is...
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    Saturn 1B in 1/288th scale....

    Here is my build of Bruno Vanhecke’s Saturn 1B. His model comes in 1/300th scale, but I enlarged it to 1/288th, a more common scale for model rockets. I modeled SA-206, which flew the first crew to Skylab. I built the basic shape of the model, then used spare copies (printed out about a percent...
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    Lander from "Interstellar"

    Here is my build of the Lander from "Interstellar." I enlarged it from UHU02's model of the Endurance. While Endurance didn't do much for me, design-wise, I did like the Landers, meant to ferry cargo modules from Endurance to a planet's surface. They struck me as a utilitarian design with a nod...
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    A couple of B5 ships....

    Here are a couple of “Babylon 5” ships I built. One is canon and the other is my design. The non-canon one, the EAS Agincourt, is a largely scratchbuilt light cruiser based on the Omega-class destroyer. For the forward, midship and engine sections, I used Jaybats' Agememnon card model, but they...
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    X-15-2, in 1/48th scale....

    I’ll will try and take some “beauty” shots later and post them, but here is my latest.... After finishing Ken West’s great X-15A-2, I became convinced that, despite his claims to the contrary, the model could be converted into the shorter, original X-15. It was just a matter of what you cut...
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    Millennium Falcon

    Speaking of "Star Wars"..... This is my build of Shunichi Makino's Millennium Falcon. It is a well-designed kit and a relatively easy. I shrunk the original model to 80 percent and it works out to about 1/96th scale, a good scale fore space modeling. I followed the clear instructions, but...
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    A321-111 in Air France livery

    This is my build of John Bowden's excellent repaint (and rescaling, extensive modification and accurization...) of Julius Perdana's Airbus A321-111 in Air France livery. The redrawn nose by Matthew Herbert is a great improvement over the original offering, too. At 1/72nd scale, it builds into an...
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    A build of Ken West's X-15A-2....

    Haven't posted here in a looong time so I figured I'd jump back in with my most recent build, Ken West's excellent X-15A-2. The model hit the market in 2009 and I put off building it forever because while the X-15 may well be my favorite airplane, I've never been a fan of the 'A-2. The 'A-2 was...
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    Any build threads for uhu02's Aries 1B?

    I've done a cursory search of the Tubes of the Internets, unsuccessfully trying to find any build threads for uhu02's Aries 1B. Is anybody aware of one? I've downloaded the photos of uhu02's build of his model, but since his descriptions/instructions are in Japanese, their meanings elude me...
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    Scale of Uhu02's Aries 1B?

    Title thread says it all: Anyone know the scale of Uhu02's Aries 1B from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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    Visby WIP

    I'm usually a rocket guy, but I decided for a change of pace to try a ship. So here are some work-in-progress photos of my latest, the Swedish stealth corvette Visby. I've only ever before tried one other ship -- Digital Navy's Admirable, which sits in a box, unfinished. And this is my second...
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    Plymouth Rock: Orion/Orion Deep Space Vehicle

    Here's my latest, the Orion/Orion Deep Space Vehicle envisioned for the "Plymouth Rock" mission to an asteroid. The models are based on depictions in Lockheed Martin's June white paper, "Plymouth Rock: An Early Human Mission to Near Earth Asteroids Using Orion Spacecraft." The Orion and Orion...
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    Orion CEV, in 1/48th

    Thought I'd post some photos of my latest build, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, in 1/48th scale. Despite its relatively short life (and death), Lockheed Martin's proposed Orion capsule has gone through a number of design changes, but I wanted to model the latest iteration proposed by the...
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    ATV Johannes Kepler

    Here's my latest. Inspired by Ton's fine ESA ATV when I built my Orion/Cousteau NEO Mission vehicle, I decided to go ahead and build a straight-ahead ATV. I chose to build the next one to fly, Johannes Kepler, which is due to be launched this year. I took the pieces of Ton's 1/96th-scale...
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    Model Of The Week: Orion/Cousteau NEO Mission

    Here's my latest: the Orion/Cousteau Near-Earth Object Mission spacecraft. It is loosely based on an actual proposal by Lockheed-Martin to dock two Orion spacecraft nose-to-nose and send it to rendezvous with a near-Earth object, i.e., an asteroid. I decided to take a different approach...
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    Who was looking for the MARS Center shuttle?

    This is embarrassing -- Someone sent me a PM asking if I had the MARS Center shuttle, which I managed to find. But I seem to have lost the PM, or something with Zealot ate it, and life has been so hectic of late that (and I'm sorry for this) I can't remember who was asking for it. So anyway...
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    Question about U-Don's Los Angeles-class submarine

    I was contemplating having a go at U-Don's Los Angeles-class submarine and printed out a page just to see if the scale calibration thing was right, and I've got a problem. Or maybe I don't. Every time I print it out -- no matter what settings I use -- the 1 cm calibration mark measures out to...
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