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Paper Kosmonaut
Hello, friends.
After building voyager in that "huge" scale of 1/48 I decided to take things back to more handleable sizes. So here's my take on the Boeing 377 Super Guppy (original design by Gary Pilsworth) while unloading a Saturn SIVb stage. In 1/400.
Starting out with the Guppy. While I wanted the Guppy to be opened, I made a couple of modifications in the design, made an inner hull structure (in green with printed bulkhead rings) and I changed the lettering to the kind the Guppy wore in the late sixties.
Due to the size and the thickness of the paper I had some fitting problems early on but after some tinkering with size in Photoshop (just 1 or 2% increase in size did the trick) I got the hull nicely together.
It gave me a full graveyard of Guppy-parts, however. After that episode everything went smooth.
Pictures Galore Part 1:
After building voyager in that "huge" scale of 1/48 I decided to take things back to more handleable sizes. So here's my take on the Boeing 377 Super Guppy (original design by Gary Pilsworth) while unloading a Saturn SIVb stage. In 1/400.
Starting out with the Guppy. While I wanted the Guppy to be opened, I made a couple of modifications in the design, made an inner hull structure (in green with printed bulkhead rings) and I changed the lettering to the kind the Guppy wore in the late sixties.
Due to the size and the thickness of the paper I had some fitting problems early on but after some tinkering with size in Photoshop (just 1 or 2% increase in size did the trick) I got the hull nicely together.
It gave me a full graveyard of Guppy-parts, however. After that episode everything went smooth.
Pictures Galore Part 1: