1:16 Space Shuttle flight deck
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I wish there was something more than a like button for this. We need to implement the Amazing button. 
- Apr 5, 2013
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I'd like to have the dashboard on my M.G. midget with buttons patterned after this. A button for every conceivable action!!, the triple redundancy!! (Anyone who has owned a British car knows this is not an outlandish idea. 
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This week I had to fight against front left consoles: boys they are very full of stuff! This especially for the big amount of graphic schemes drawn on them, a lot of drawing lines that I hope will be - at least - barely visible in the model. I also started working my first new parts to add detail where I want to have more of it...
This is the L1 panel, the most complex I've drawn till now...
This is the L2, I was forced to modify a little its contour shape (compared to NASA original drawing) to fit it the best way in the console part (the shape of underlying face was not exactly the same).
L4 is the first of the various electrical panels. I didn't have a good photo of this one so I was forced to speculate a bit about the exact look and colour of the various fuses. I hope it's not too much different from the real one on the Endeavour.
And this is the little L5. Here I started to imagine how to add some real 3D to the recessed panels like this one.
Here are the two front left consoles in their respective positions. The white rectangle is the spot where is going to be placed the thrust/speed brake controller...
And this my first customized component for the cockpit. I still don't know how is the fitting of this thing, I'm going to test it soon, currently I'm only drawing...
And this is the wall between left front and left aft flight deck. I modified this piece because I didn't like the way it was unfolded. Added some detail and another custom object... to be test builded...
This is all for today. Next part the front right consoles. Bye!
This is the L1 panel, the most complex I've drawn till now...
This is the L2, I was forced to modify a little its contour shape (compared to NASA original drawing) to fit it the best way in the console part (the shape of underlying face was not exactly the same).
L4 is the first of the various electrical panels. I didn't have a good photo of this one so I was forced to speculate a bit about the exact look and colour of the various fuses. I hope it's not too much different from the real one on the Endeavour.
And this is the little L5. Here I started to imagine how to add some real 3D to the recessed panels like this one.
Here are the two front left consoles in their respective positions. The white rectangle is the spot where is going to be placed the thrust/speed brake controller...
And this my first customized component for the cockpit. I still don't know how is the fitting of this thing, I'm going to test it soon, currently I'm only drawing...
And this is the wall between left front and left aft flight deck. I modified this piece because I didn't like the way it was unfolded. Added some detail and another custom object... to be test builded...
This is all for today. Next part the front right consoles. Bye!
Here are my last panels...
Now doing right side near pilot's seat
R1
R2
And both in place
The R4 is on the middle wall on the side facing forward, just under the fire extinguisher
And this is the full piece.
I noted in Thorst's model that the side facing rear had a panel on it. That panel is the R7 (here in the NASA scheme) Anyone knows what this was for?
However in Endeavour photos seems that this panel have been removed.
So I redraw that surface according to the photo above.
And this is my second original piece: the fire extinguisher (that I'm very proud of... )
The only decent image I've found depicting the extinguisher is this one taken on the Discovery:
And this one obtained zooming on a Endeavour photo taken from outside, thru the window
Starting from those photo and comparing them to images of other extinguishers (from the same manufacturer) found on the web I tried to obtain a reasonable copy of the one that should have been present on Endeavour.
That's all for now. See you soon!
Now doing right side near pilot's seat
R1
R2
And both in place
The R4 is on the middle wall on the side facing forward, just under the fire extinguisher
And this is the full piece.
I noted in Thorst's model that the side facing rear had a panel on it. That panel is the R7 (here in the NASA scheme) Anyone knows what this was for?
However in Endeavour photos seems that this panel have been removed.
So I redraw that surface according to the photo above.
And this is my second original piece: the fire extinguisher (that I'm very proud of... )
The only decent image I've found depicting the extinguisher is this one taken on the Discovery:
And this one obtained zooming on a Endeavour photo taken from outside, thru the window
Starting from those photo and comparing them to images of other extinguishers (from the same manufacturer) found on the web I tried to obtain a reasonable copy of the one that should have been present on Endeavour.
That's all for now. See you soon!
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...I just couldn't resist... I HAD to build something...
Here it is: my absolutely first original shuttle part... nice isn't it?
Here it is: my absolutely first original shuttle part... nice isn't it?
RB... I'm definitely not thinking about leave the panels without some greebling. I'm planning to do something even worse than only add some layers and holes to "move" the surfaces... but I don't think the work will be done this century... 
(see this to have an idea...)
(see this to have an idea...)
RB... I'm definitely not thinking about leave the panels without some greebling. I'm planning to do something even worse than only add some layers and holes to "move" the surfaces... but I don't think the work will be done this century...
WOW!!!
That is going to be a GREAT DEAL OF WORK!!!
I commend you on your ambitions for this project! I just hope that you do not go CUCKOO for Coco Puffs!
if, at a certain point, you see me doing strange things, please alert my wife!
I post again my last update that was lost somewhere in the web...
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Here I am again with my last panel work...
This time I placed my hands on the most important panel in all the model, the real eye-catching spot (at least in my opinion): the front dashboard.
This is the reason I took some more time to draw it...
The most difficult thing was to choose the MFD screens to show. I don't know if this is a combination that could really have been observed. I also don't know if the screens were choosen freely from commander and pilot or they always were recalled in fixed combinations. I imagined an on-orbit operation phase for my shuttle and placed visualizations that could be seen in that configuration. The text screens are all from OPS201 program and shows general informations. I hope this view is not too far from reality.
The MFD images were not drawn by me. I took them from a wonderful computer simulation: Space-Shuttle-Mission 2007 from Exciting Simulations. This is definitely the best Shuttle simulator I've ever flown. I repeated every mission of the many included, many and many times from take off to the landing. I've placed almost all of the ISS modules from the first unity module to the cupola, always working with the canadian arm just as I was a real mission specialist. This is one of the reason for I feel so Shuttle-addicted and also the main motivation that pushed me to to embark in this adventure. Well, I contacted the guys at ES describing my project, telling them I was taking screenshots from their software and asking if this is OK for them. They answered immediately telling me there's no problem and that they appreciate what I'm doing ( ) They also gave me some suggestions about this particular piece of my model. I didn't know that the software actually used with the "glass cockpit" instrumentation was updated at a certain point. As STS 134 was one of the very last missions to be flown the software in use was certainly the latest release. So my screens are not exactly accurate. They gave me some directions on how to update the data visualized on the MFDs and, you know how it happens... I think I'll be forced to draw all the screens from scratch... 
Here is an example of the latest software displays on the real Endeavour:
I leave this part of the work for a later phase but I'll have to do it properly, anyway...
I also started to add details on the underside of the parts because I'd like to place real light spots in the places where they really was in the cabin so I have to realize a "lower side" with the lights.
This is all for now... next time.... center console... I think.
Bye.
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Here I am again with my last panel work...
This time I placed my hands on the most important panel in all the model, the real eye-catching spot (at least in my opinion): the front dashboard.
This is the reason I took some more time to draw it...
The most difficult thing was to choose the MFD screens to show. I don't know if this is a combination that could really have been observed. I also don't know if the screens were choosen freely from commander and pilot or they always were recalled in fixed combinations. I imagined an on-orbit operation phase for my shuttle and placed visualizations that could be seen in that configuration. The text screens are all from OPS201 program and shows general informations. I hope this view is not too far from reality.The MFD images were not drawn by me. I took them from a wonderful computer simulation: Space-Shuttle-Mission 2007 from Exciting Simulations. This is definitely the best Shuttle simulator I've ever flown. I repeated every mission of the many included, many and many times from take off to the landing. I've placed almost all of the ISS modules from the first unity module to the cupola, always working with the canadian arm just as I was a real mission specialist. This is one of the reason for I feel so Shuttle-addicted and also the main motivation that pushed me to to embark in this adventure. Well, I contacted the guys at ES describing my project, telling them I was taking screenshots from their software and asking if this is OK for them. They answered immediately telling me there's no problem and that they appreciate what I'm doing (
) They also gave me some suggestions about this particular piece of my model. I didn't know that the software actually used with the "glass cockpit" instrumentation was updated at a certain point. As STS 134 was one of the very last missions to be flown the software in use was certainly the latest release. So my screens are not exactly accurate. They gave me some directions on how to update the data visualized on the MFDs and, you know how it happens... I think I'll be forced to draw all the screens from scratch... Here is an example of the latest software displays on the real Endeavour:
I leave this part of the work for a later phase but I'll have to do it properly, anyway...
I also started to add details on the underside of the parts because I'd like to place real light spots in the places where they really was in the cabin so I have to realize a "lower side" with the lights.
This is all for now... next time.... center console... I think.
Bye.
This is EXACTLY what I'm planning to do!