So, finished up this just in time for last weekend's event for the Naval Aviation Museum - more detail in separate lunar rover thread with comments by the designer G.Friedel.
Started what will likely end up as
another rocket garden - maybe (1:200 scale again). Might be something to do a forward look with - boosters, capsules, interplanetary mission vehicles ...
Anyway, it's David Brown's NASA SLS available at AXM paper models. Nicely drawn. Builds well (designer learned from Alphonso and Ton it seems). The few build notes I came up with:
- upper SRB segments need to be trimmed to match the width of the lower parts to ensure a tight fit;
- SRBs need a ring at the base of the skirt to close the skirt-to-nozzle space;
- you'll need a couple wraps of card to shim the fit between the bottom of the H2 tank and the thrust structure;
- be prepared to make up some connector strips for the tube and conic segments if you're building a display model.
All in all a worthy addition to the inventory - let's hope they build it
and fund the payloads needed to get out of LEO.
Yogi