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Winter Build - 1/100 Space Shuttle
Time to show off what I did with the latest cones from Sandman. It's not paint ready yet, but it's all test fit.
Some rings and skirts. SRB motor mounts. Canted. I may not use them - but I'm hopeful. SRB aft skirts. I've since bent the hooks more so they sit flat. SRBs. -There's- some of Gordon's fine work. And there's the rest. I'm building to be able to separate the SRBs. Rail guide on the SRBs, with a bottom rail made from the packaging from the coffee pods at the day job. Upper connection is a small brass tube that fits in the screw hole for the rail guide. I'll mount a sring on the SRB (not the one pictured) and run monofilament through the ET to tie the SRBs to the ET. To separate, a flight computoer will fire a wire or ignitor to cut the monofilament, and the springs will push the SRBs off the brass tube. Drag will take them from there.
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Hollowing out the orbiter. It's from Guillows. Slightly damaged/repaired since it seems Amazon can't ship me one intact.
Rudder control. 1/50" stainless tubing scrap in 1/16" PEEK tubing. Elevators are still giving me trouble - work in progress. External Tank - Orbiter attachment points. I decided to keep the glider rubber band hook, as we are using it for test flights to trim & test the RC. So I made a catch for it out of the same rail stock as the SRB. And sitting up. And hanging out with its 1/100 friends.
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Neat project. Make sure to give a flight report.
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VERY nice... OL J R
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Beautiful work
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Thanks.
I’m still working on tricking out the external tank before I start boring holes in the aft dome. I’m having my boy 3D print embossing plates for the intertank stringers. Fingers crossed - I’ll post pictures of lovely wraps if it works.
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Excellent. Nice cones by Gordy. So, two engine cluster and r/c glider recovery? I assume parachutes for the boosters, but how about the external tank? Flight computer with parachute and pyro ejection?
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I'm setting up to fly a few ways:
1) Single motor in External Tank with RC glider recovery. Boosters stay with ET. 2) Single motor in ET, Glider RC, SRBs separate w/chutes. Quantum in ET, Quarks in SRBs. 3) Single Motor in ET, 13-18mm motors in SRBs, Glider RC, motor deploy in SRBs, Quantum in ET.
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A scratch-built, RC shuttle stack?! You’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.
Beautiful work!
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