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Old 10-06-2017, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by PeterAlway
The "fun scale Soyuz" was something from a kitbash session at model rocket convention. It was just a crude BT-50 model with strapons rolled from the kit stuffer or instructions.

I will confess that I never built the exact Vostok in "Art of Scale." I did build a Soyuz along the same lines at the same scale, but simplified it down to a Vostok for the book.

Peter Alway
Peter, thank you for providing these details. If you could "re-construct" plans for that "fun scale Soyuz" (its strap-on boosters could be rolled from readily-available office supply store-sourced card stock, today), they would make a nice little "bonus item"--which teachers, Scout, Camp Fire USA, and 4-H leaders, etc. could use--that could go along with the online scan of "The Art of Scale Model Rocketry." The book itself would be great for Industrial Arts teachers and "Shop class" teachers to use, because of the activities such as scaling (including from un-dimensioned sources and pictures), turning nose cones and transitions, and masking & painting (with brushes, spray cans, and a compressor/airbrush) that you described in it, and:

That--while I find it interesting from an historical standpoint (I like learning the stories behind how and why my favorite books were written and compiled as they were)--is certainly no misdeed. There's no question that your particular Vostok scale model, if built "by your book," will fly stably. The main thing is that you devised realistic-looking, yet not dauntingly difficult to build, booster/sustainer attach trusses and the "open-air, geodetic basket-weave" interstage framework. Using "Rockets of the World" or "Twelve Soviet Missiles of the Cold War," history-minded (and/or less bold) builders could use your Vostok model plans to build even simpler R-7 Semyorka-based scale models--Sputnik I, Sputnik II, Sputnik III, or the various versions of the R-7 ICBM itself.
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