Photographic Wayback Machine: Orion

 blather, history, models, nukes, projects, spacecraft
Aug 272010
 

Around about ten years ago (during another employment dry spell), I got a contract from NASA-MSFC to build a few models of the General Atomic 10-meter Orion. I built five, I believe… three in 1/144 scale, two in 1/72.  I took some fairly horrible photos of them before shipping them off. These were of course film photos, a digital camera still being another three or so years in my future. Two of the 1/144 models are shown below:

orionmodelsa.jpg

I could certainly do far better today. A combination of vastly better references and improved modelling skills could produce one hell of an Orion.

 Posted by at 1:02 pm

  4 Responses to “Photographic Wayback Machine: Orion”

  1. kbob42 says:
    August 27, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    Hurm, How much?

  2. Jim R. says:
    August 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    Scott,

    Any idea what NASA-MSFC did with the models? Do you know where they’re on display?

  3. admin says:
    August 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Actually, yeah. Some years back I went to MSFC on a business trip, and in the course of it wandered around one of the office buildings… and saw a few of the models. This was, IIRC, well after normal work hours (the meetings ran long), and nobody except my MSFC “host” was there, but I saw several of the models just sorts floating around the cube-farm. Wasn’t really sure quite what to make of that.

  4. admin says:
    September 2, 2010 at 11:14 am

    > Hurm, How much?

    “How much” is:
    1) How big
    2) How detailed
    3) How many
    and
    4) How fast

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