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I think I'm done, except for making a base of some sort. It was a fun build. The final bits on were the little dot thingies that line the outer perimeter of the flight deck. I've no clue what they are, but I'm wondering if they are coverings for the holes that hold the railings and/or safety net...

The problem with using that door as a scale reference is that it's not really there. Or at least it isn't in any photos I can find of Visby. Maybe it is and it just doesn't show up in photos, but of the ones I've been able to dig up on the Tubes of the Internets, I don't see it. And the height...

I plan to replace the railings when the laser-cut ones I ordered from AvantCard arrive in the mail. They should look better. I will add, however, that the railings I built are the same height as the ones that Zarkov provides for in his photo-etch template. I literally built mine on top of his...

Still puttering along. I've added the director forward of the bridge, some little arm thingie that sticks out from the front of the bridge, re-done the windows and added window wipers and the radar(?) mast atop the radome. The director is made out of laminations of matte board. This one was...

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...

Then again if he wants to stay with the "2001" theme, an Orion III might be nice. Or a Moonbus....

Great! I downloaded the model but had to leave for work before I could print anything out. Does anyone know if this stuff is standard American letter-sized paper, A4 or what? Looking over the parts, they look stunning and there's no doubt, from Uhu02's photos, that it builds into a...

I've got his website bookmarked, I know the username and password, but since I can't read Japanese, is the thing available for download yet?

A deserving MOTW. Glad to see it up there.

Well, another source says "real" Aries 1B's sphere is supposed to be 40 feet in diameter. If Uhu02's model is 126 mm wide, then that would (by my calculations) put the model at a scale of 1/96.7. (12,192 mm divided by 126 mm = 96.7). If that's the case, that'd be cool. It would be in scale...

Ok, I'll throw this out there for someone else to compute since my math stinks and the various scale converters I could find online all require you to punch in the scale first. A modeler on another sci-fi modeling forum said he recalls the "real" Aries 1B was 52 feet tall, or 15,849.6 mm...

Is the interior integral to the model's structural integrity, or can it be built without the interior? As well-designed as it might be (and as much work as uhu20 has put into the innards) I'd rather just darken the windows, save time and skip the interior.

It looks very impressive. Can't wait for it to be released. While the engineering is superb and the landing gear obviously articulates, I'm not sure I understand from the photos whether they can lock in the "down" position and support the weight of the model.

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...

That's some amazing work there. On the finished model, will the landing gear articulate -- and if so, will they be strong enough to hold the model up in the "gear down" position?

Thanks for the kind words. The local IPMS ("P" as in "Plastic") is having their annual contest later this month and I was planning on entering my ATV, as well as the Orion and Ares I-X. When I enter such contests, I sit down and type up a description of the model and construction to attach to...

Speaking of scale, what scale is the Ares 1B? Anyone know?

Ton's model, which is in 1/96th scale, is really very good and I would recommend it to anyone. Orion may yet fly, in some form, and while it may not have been the shuttle follow-on that a lot of us had hoped for, it is a capable spacecraft. Some of LockMart's proposals for a crewed science...

So.... Are these photos of a test build, or is the model actually available now?

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...