1:16 Space Shuttle flight deck

zathros · Feb 20, 2017

I think it is the way to go. They wore their space suits all the time after the disasters. Their suits provided the padding they needed, and in space, you butt doesn't hurt from sitting down on a spartan chair. I am sure that any gaseous anomalies would escape the suit, and it would be hard to say which astronaut was the culprit, but the carbon scrubbers would wipe the air clean.

Revell-Fan · Feb 20, 2017

I wonder what games they played with that joystick..!

zathros · Feb 21, 2017

There could have been stored an airbag there in case of an accident, as I remember there being a white cloth like box under there, but I cannot find the pic. It just may have been storage, as they used every nook and cranny.

Tonino · Feb 23, 2017

Someone told me pic upload works again...

YESSS!!! IT'S TRUE!!!

Well here are other pre-builds to test fitting of new added parts.

First challenge: the joystick. It has a very complex shape. Very hard to recreate in 3D in this scale. I tried the "sandwich" method and realized a number of slices, imagining to cut a real joystick with a knife.

I left some slices back because the thickness would be excessive, but, even after some sanding at the edges, the result doesn't satisfy me a lot. This detail is put in "waiting mode"...

Here are some tries with ceiling details:

Here is central lamp and aft wall structure...

And here is side lamp with one of the mysterious pouches. After some searching I found some infos about them: they contained cable devices (one for every crew member, hence the numbering) used in case of emergency exit throug the upper windows.

And here is my very first attempt with pilot's chair.

It's just a draft to check dimensions and proportions. I already found a mistake: the seat should not be parallel to floor as I made it, but slightly inclined backwards, in the photos it appears to be aligned with central console (that is inclined) so I must correct the shape of the base.

Unfortunately I already have drawn the final seat pieces and now I have to modify them. Not a great problem: it's the nice part of vector graphics: you have just to shift some nodes and the drawing follows them as it was made of rubber bands...

Going to make a new test build for the chair. It's a very important piece of my cabin and I want it to be really nice! I'll be back soon

Bye

Rhaven Blaack · Feb 23, 2017

The joystick looks very good. I like the design of it. Although, I can see why you did not put in all of the layers. I can also see this used as a side joystick in a fighter plane (like a Viper or Advanced Thunder Fighter) :tank:
Everything else looks FANTASTIC!
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

Tonino · Feb 23, 2017

The chair base is corrected:

and here are some other seat details

...and the pedals

zathros · Feb 23, 2017

I could see those seats being "borrowed" for other projects!!

Revell-Fan · Feb 24, 2017

:Bravo:

BTW, you are not alone:
http://scalemodelingdomain.blogspot.de/2015/01/112th-scale-space-shuttle-cockpit.html

zathros · Feb 24, 2017

Tonino said:
Someone told me pic upload works again...

YESSS!!! IT'S TRUE!!!

Well here are other pre-builds to test fitting of new added parts.

First challenge: the joystick. It has a very complex shape. Very hard to recreate in 3D in this scale. I tried the "sandwich" method and realized a number of slices, imagining to cut a real joystick with a knife.

View attachment 156625 View attachment 156626 View attachment 156627
I left some slices back because the thickness would be excessive, but, even after some sanding at the edges, the result doesn't satisfy me a lot. This detail is put in "waiting mode"...

Here are some tries with ceiling details:
View attachment 156628
Here is central lamp and aft wall structure...

View attachment 156629
And here is side lamp with one of the mysterious pouches. After some searching I found some infos about them: they contained cable devices (one for every crew member, hence the numbering) used in case of emergency exit throug the upper windows.

And here is my very first attempt with pilot's chair.
View attachment 156630 View attachment 156631
It's just a draft to check dimensions and proportions. I already found a mistake: the seat should not be parallel to floor as I made it, but slightly inclined backwards, in the photos it appears to be aligned with central console (that is inclined) so I must correct the shape of the base.

View attachment 156633
Unfortunately I already have drawn the final seat pieces and now I have to modify them. Not a great problem: it's the nice part of vector graphics: you have just to shift some nodes and the drawing follows them as it was made of rubber bands...

Going to make a new test build for the chair. It's a very important piece of my cabin and I want it to be really nice! I'll be back soon

Bye

I bet they stored their extra "Pamper's" diapers in there. It would be embarrassing having to change a fellow astronaut. You have to throw down a tarp in case they peed their spacesuits. (Only parents get these jokes, and maybe Revelle-Fan! ).

Tonino · Feb 27, 2017

I'm very proud to present you... after a lot of draw - erase - draw - erase - ...

the front seat - final version!

Tah-dah!!!

Nando · Feb 27, 2017

Fantastic, simply fantastic! :Bravo:thumbsup

zathros · Feb 27, 2017

Superb!!

Rhaven Blaack · Feb 27, 2017

That is a FANTASTIC seat! It look very realistic! You have really set the bar very high!

bigpetr · Feb 28, 2017

Hell of a chair

SonOfAGun2501 · Feb 28, 2017

...Wow.

zathros · Feb 28, 2017

I think the "Bar" is now in orbit, and not is it only high, being in orbit, it's longer!! (check your physics)

Revell-Fan · Feb 28, 2017

:Bravo::Bravo::Bravo::Bravo::Bravo:

SonOfAGun2501 · Feb 28, 2017

zathros said:
I think the "Bar" is now in orbit, and not is it only high, being in orbit, it's longer!! (check your physics)

I checked and it checks out.

Tonino · Mar 2, 2017

Slowly, step by step, I'm almost arrived to the end of this huge design work.
Now finishing all little bits still on the "to do" list.

Here are:

the HUDs