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Quo vadis, XSL-01?
A current thread on the Revell XSL-01 on the Space Modelers Yahoo group jogged my memory. Once upon a time, wasn't an intrepid designer working on a full-stack XSL-01 card model? I know there's a 1/96 Revell Moonship by "Wolfgang Perez" at Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center. Is that the guy?
That's one "concept" model I'd LOVE to have, since it's probably the only Revell space kit Yers Truly didn't actually get as a kid (despite impassioned pleas to my father in a Fort Lauderdale, FL drug store). Major trauma. Probably explains much about my personality today.... Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack) |
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The Revel kit from 1957 is extremely rare and also very very expencive if one found. The model and toy antiquarians sell it's the empty box around 50$ and thats a collectible too!
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I'm not a designer; heck, I'm barely a competent builder! Sven "Ninfinger" Knudson has a .pdf of the original XSL-01 instructions on his site if any designer wants to give it a shot. http://www.ninfinger.org/models/kitp...vellh1800.html Sven also has a .pdf of the XSL-01 "Operations Manual" on the same page. Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack) Last edited by Retired_for_now; 01-04-2011 at 04:36 PM. Reason: Replace direct file link with link to author's page. |
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That doesn't seem very difficult at all. Just some tubes and cones. There aren't any compound curves. Maybe someone will do it. It's something that you would need a good line drawing, even just from the top and side, to get a grip on.
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There is already a card model of the Moon Ship here http://www.ninfinger.org/models/vault2010/index.html - drive down to the XSL-01 folder.
That puts you halfway there. Mod note: you should always link to an author's web page to access their files, not directly to the file. Direct linking bypasses the author's pages - and could lead you to an executable you don't want ... Yogi Last edited by Retired_for_now; 01-04-2011 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Direct link to files removed - link is to author's page |
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I'll leave the link up for others though. Last edited by Retired_for_now; 01-04-2011 at 04:26 PM. |
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