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Re: NASA Space Shuttle and crawler (preview)
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:04:15 GMT
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Paul Baulch wrote:
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> Still, it got my imagination going... and this was the eventual result.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36136
Awesome! Great Work! And a brown external tank to boot! (first I have
seen) Well done! I have to say the Mobile Launching Pad looks really
detailed! Is the crawler integrated to the pad - or can it drive out
from under it?
> Anyway, this scale does have a number of advantages, including:
Your model brings back some memories for me. When I was a kid I build a
shuttle and booster of similar scale to your model. My orbiter was
eight wide, and had a cargo hold 30 studs in length. Surprisingly I
found that I could hold the stack together with just simple brick
elements at the attachment points. Unfortunately my shuttle was rather
crude looking. I didn't have very many fancy elements back then.
The orbiter was constructed in Classic Space blue and gray (with a
lot of 33 slopes on an ugly airliner-like nose), while the external
tank was all red and the solid rockets white. I didn't have enough
Lego left over to do a pad and tower so built those out of my brother's
Construx (sp?) pieces. In fact I had an entire mini-Kennedy Space Center
thing going on in my basement back then!
> This is the only picture I'll be taking for a while. I only posted this one
> because I expect other people to be undertaking similar projects but I
> hadn't seen them post results and, hey, I wanted to be first ;-)
I honestly don't think there are too many "MOC" Space Shuttle replicas
out there. Before I started mine I did a web search looking
for sources of inspiration. I only found a few:
Selcuk Gore did a very nice version looks ~3/4 minifig scale:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=146
The incredible Legoland model:
http://hugin.ldraw.org/meyer/LEGO/Officielt/Legoland/Space_Shuttle
Lego Imagination Center @ Mall of America:
http://baylug.org/russellc/mall-of-america/mall08.jpg
There is also a shuttle/boosters and pad model at NASA:
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/stsbloc.html
...and one or two others whose links I have since lost.
> hopefully some aspects of my design might be helpful too.
It's hard to tell from your photo, but I am wondering how you did you do
the black leading edge of the tail?
P.S: I still haven't ruled out eventually going for a tank and boosters
for mine! Right now it is too costly a project in terms of both time and
money - I'd rather invest in some smaller less complicated projects
that may be just as personally rewarding.
--
J. Spencer Rezkalla
http://www.mich.com/~srezkall
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| "J. Spencer Rezkalla" <srezkall@mich.com> wrote in message news:3AA453AF.69A349...ich.com... (...) Thanks! This is a little embarrassing, but I didn't actually know that the crawler could separate from the pad... :-( My knowledge of the crawler (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| A while back, J. Spencer Rezkalla presented a great rendition of the Space Shuttle orbiter. Many people asked him if he were going to construct the boosters, fuel tank and crawler pad. Mostly, they were joking because of the scale he chose (too (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.space) !!
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