A blog reader came through on the BluRay screenshots from “2001,” and they proved to be a lot better than my own DVD screenshots. Not terribly surprising, of course. They revealed a lot of details that were previously just small blurs. That’s good… lets me be accurate. That’s also bad… it shows me that the Station had a *lot* of little detail bits.
Here is a render of part of the model showing the current state of things. The greeblies on the spokes are completely different, and the spokes now feature additional cables running along the surface. The inner surface of the rim now features a good chunk of the detailing it needs… the broader strokes are in place, but a boatload of greeblies are needed. Windows are now punched into the rim surface… these windows are accurately placed.
My hope here is to end up with a Space Station V model that anybody would look at and say “yup.” The beauty of CAD is that after all the work is done, when the kit master parts are printed and cleaned up, the molds are made and the kit in production, I could theoretically always print out a bigger version. I’ve seen a number of people online making large-scale Space Station V models, either for themselves or intended as kits… around 30 inches diameter seems to be the general consensus. Not sure where I’d put a model that big, and I *know* I couldn’t afford to print one off that big… but it’s nice to know that it’s always a possibility.
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I’m hoping for a 1:1 scale version, myself.
1:1 would either mean about 7 feet in diameter, or somewhere between 1000 and 2000 feet in diameter. The first option is just barely possible, though I’d hate to be the guy who had to pay for it.
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get my hands on the 3D model.
The station seems like a good design. I don’t know why NASA doesn’t build one. Other than money, the design seems practical and relatively easy to implement once you have the proper infrastructure in place.
I’m probably wrong in assuming this, but what with the curve of the ‘interior’ we saw in the movie, couldn’t one make the arguement that they were simply inside the outermost section of the central drum/hub, and that none of the more gradual curving outermost ring set was occupied yet.
Were I to design a space station, I would have fout sections. Zero g at the core-hub of course. Then a a lunar gravity ring, a Mars gravity ring, and finally, on the outermost section, the one g ring.
I wonder if the Moon-to-mars section could not have fit entirely withing the wide central drum of the station as seen on screen…
Hey Scott,
I picked up one of your SSV kits a couple of months ago and started working on it last weekend. Ugh. The parts looked like they have nice detail, but the person who did the casting over used the molds and the results are awful.
If you have a say in who does your casting… don’t pick this company again.
Actual production and distribution are off to the side of me (I’m just the contractor responsible for making the master parts), but I have passed your message on to the owner of FP.