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Thanks for the kind words, but don't sell yourself short; you do fine work and the photos you've shown of your work demonstrate that you're a talented craftsman who produces some fine models himself. It took me awhile to get to this point, and I'm not doing anything that others can't do. The...

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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...

Thanks for the kind words. The Cousteau is a modification of Ton Noteboom's fine ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle. He also makes the parts for the crewed version. The models are on his website: http://www.pe2tr.nl/.

I decided that if you're going to fly a mission to a Near-Earth Object, then you need an NEO to fly to. Following a link Yogi helpfully provided, I built the asteroid Eros. (Although, in all accuracy, the NEO most often mentioned in such a mission is NEO 2001GP2, but I couldn't find a model of...

Thanks for the kind words, and I'm honored with the "Model of the Week" thing. There have been some pretty fine examples of card modeling up there lately, and I'm humbled to be in such exalted company. As for the lack of a lander.... You wouldn't need one. Most NEOs are small enough that they...

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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...

My SSME plumbing was thin strips of laminated silver paper. I laminated it, cut it into thin strips, then curled it around the edge of my knife to curl it. The belly of the MARS Center orbiter isn't that bad, except the body flap has tiles going only one direction instead of two. I think I...

The paper I used for the AFRSI was a textured art paper. It's hard to describe. You'd just have to go to an art-supply store and look through their collection of paper. It was a heavy stock, though.

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...

I remember it, and have seen scratchbuilt plastic models of it (http://www.ninfinger.org/models/html_pix/llrv.html) but I've never seen a card model of it. Even a "simplified" model of it would be quite challenging....

I may have copies of the shuttle files (at least of Atlantis) on my computer at home. I can check tonight, if you'd like.

Agreed -- great work. Although I always loved the ship's design, I also always wondered where the engines/thrusters were on the Valley Forge.

Erik's site has been down for a few weeks, but yeah, he's the go-to guy for Delta IIs and the Delta III. I've built several of his Deltas over the years and they are well-designed models that build into fine replicas, but also lend themselves to super-detailing. You might want to drop him an...

Jaybats offers a Jupiter 2. http://www.freewebs.com/jaybats/ It's under "Dealer's Choice," the fourth wave.

Very clean build of a cool starship. Thanks for sharing the photos!

That's a fine-lookin' build! You can see why the ship got nicknamed "The Porkburger," though....

So.... Discussions about propriety aside, here's an actual modeling question. Since there are no calibration marks on the pages, is there any guidance as to what size paper this should be printed out on? 8.5x11? A4? Also, does he state anywhere what the scale is?

DaDragon makes some very good points. Oftentimes, modeling is about capturing the look and/or the feel of a vehicle, and you have done that -- and more --with this design and build. Only the most anal of rivet-counters will get on your case about the alleged "discrepancies." To my eye, there are...