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:
I could certainly do far better today. A combination of vastly better references and improved modelling skills could produce one hell of an Orion.
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Hurm, How much?
Scott,
Any idea what NASA-MSFC did with the models? Do you know where they’re on display?
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.
> Hurm, How much?
“How much” is:
1) How big
2) How detailed
3) How many
and
4) How fast