1/1000 VAB at KSC

[umtutsut]

And here's the finished product, in all its magnificent mediocrity!

I added lots of detail to the VAB roof. It's a busy place in the photos I found. A few other details here and there. The biggest challenge was getting the door frames to fit. I had to replace the horizontal pieces at the bottom of the frames with styrene because the kit parts just didn't fit properly.

Overall, a reasonably enjoyable build. Mucho thanx to Lee Anne Ward for creating the beta model!

Comments welcome, as always.

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

[obwand10]

WHeres the mini LUT?
NICE work!!!

[jimkrauzlis]

That came out spectacularly!!

Well done! Thanks for posting pictures!

Cheers!
Jim

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Great work, Les. You don't have to use terms like mediocrity imho. It looks good. period. And even in this scale it still remains a very impressive building.

[dhanners]

Looks great! You have much more talent than you let on....

[Retired_for_now]

Concur - very nice result with your detailing on top of Lee Anne's great model!

Yogi

[umtutsut]

Thanx to all for the kind verbiage. I occasionally do some good work, but I consider my skills pretty darn average!

Next up is a 1/96 Thor-Able TIROS launcher to go with the satellite I finished last year.

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

[spaceflightengineer]

Yes- looking forward to completion- the white rectangles atop the side buildings on either side of the low bay should have raised areas in place. I know- since that's where, for 10 years, my orbiter engineering office was.
This is a fine project- are you making it available to download, I wonder?

Thanks for the looksee-

BP

Originally Posted by umtutsut

Rescued from the Shelf of Doom (i.e., unstarted or unfinished kits)!!!!

I went back to the VAB after finishing Pioneer 11. I finally got the door frames on and added all the grilles to the VAB roof. The latter are raised structures, not just set into the roof.

Still plenty of detail to add on the top. Amazing how many poles and antennas NASA has up there.

Stay tooned for more progress!

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

[umtutsut]

Join the Space-Paper-Models Yahoo group and you can download it here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Space-...1%20to%201000/

Les (The Voice of Authority)

[spaceflightengineer]

Originally Posted by umtutsut

"Picture yourself at a regular workbench
With lots of card models of regular size
Suddenly someone is there at the table
The man with the microscope eyes...."
(Apologies to the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds )

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

In the words of the Beatles cartoon version of Ringo- "Yuh" [it's all he ever said]. That VAB is just great. Thanks a lot for sharing!

BP