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Thanks for your kind comments. I hope you’ll enjoy my model, if I could complete it! :( At this point, with the prototyping phase almost completed, I can start to finalize the version of each part, experimenting the better way to render the patterns of colors. I decided to start from the...

Thanks to all for the interest. After that my design of the third stage was satisfactory about the shape, I tried to do a color test, to see how the texture could render and which solution would I apply to the entire stack. Here the first test in Inkscape … … and here the first test build...

Thanks Revel -Fan and Zathros for your interest. The next step is the third stage: the reusable one, the first concept of a shuttle. About reusability, also the first and second stage should have been recoverable using a sort of metallic parachute. Here some picture of the design process...

Someone reported me that some link in some browser doesn’t work, so here the two pictures

Thank ‘you Tonino and Zathros, I hope to respect your expectations . Here the second chapter: second stage and the base (an early version of the MLP). To be continued. Best, Nando :)

I choose the 1/300 scale, for the concern about the home space, and first I had to decide how to design the pattern of the engines on the first and second stage, and some other detail such the thickness (i like to use 160gsm paper ). Here an example of the excel sheet that I usually use for this...

I don’t know if it is the right place, here. Indeed the subject could seem fictional, but in realty it’s at the roots of the modern spaceflight. When I was looking for documentation about my project TWA Moonliner , I was fascinated by the story I found here ( The Great 1952 Space Program...

Pay attention! If you leave this laptop turned on, the batteries could run out .... :eek: Best, Nando PS: some paper at last ;)

The snowy portrait of San Marino. Loaded on Flickr to display it.

Hi Tonino, Fantastic work on the graphics so far! I think you have to contact the Nasa and propose they use your panels in their documentation, so flat and ugly in the original. Now it's time to see something in 3d, considering the weather outside ;) Best, Nando :) PS:I have some problem to...

Welcome back Tonino! Reading your plan, it seems to me that every part you are reworking is a project by itself. I'll follow your progress with interest, because i'm sure that the final result will be astonishing. Best, Nando :)

Here a lot of original NASA drawings from the "Shuttle Operational Data Book". Someone could be useful, all are interesting. Best, Nando :)

It's hard to understand what you are referring without pictures! But about "sagittal section", here You can buy a cheap "Space Shuttle drawings set". It's difficult to see details, but I think that the original could be useful. Best, Nando :)

More about thickness. The windshields are thick and double in the Orbiter. This is given for the different challenges the interior and exterior part have to withstand. The interior have to maintain the pressure and the temperature that the astronauts need. The exteriors need to withstand the...

I agree that the crew compartment is a separated structure from the rest of the Orbiter frame, simply because it is the only sealed part of the ship, maintaining the pressurized atmosphere needed for the human breathing beings. Here some pics of the crew compartment during its assembly with the...

GO Tonino, GOOOOO! Best, Nando :)

I agree with Zathros about the usability of the files. Thorsten is a master in designing paper model and a very generous guy. In the same period he worked at the Shuttle, he released for free a model of the LZ-45 "L 13" Zeppelin now hosted at Jonathan Leslie site : a very challenging model...

Ok, but the membership is not so difficult to obtain. However here a sample page.

Tonino, in the Yahoo Paper Space Models Group there is a Shuttle model, sorry not complete. It seems to me that the Group model is very similar to that of the blog. I don't know if you can see the contents without membership, but the model is here. Best, Nando:)

... you are right but you did your best when you worked together as a nation, following the dream of one man "... not because it is easy, but because it is hard." Nando