Arvydas' photorealistic Shuttle skin - sharing them here?

[Paper Kosmonaut]

I have had several requests in the past year to share the beautiful Photorealistic shuttle Atlantis skins Arvydas created. He shared them with us here in 2014 in a PDF via a dropbox file, which of course now is unavailable.
Arvydas only posted three times, in the thread he shared the file with us.
Now, however much I like visitors of my blog showing interest in what I make and so on, I am not a file sharing service per se.


So, since Arvydas originally posted the files here, would it be a good idea to put those files in the download section? In my opinion, he did share it freely with us and I don't think the expired dropbox file had anything to do with the fact that it now is unavailable. He kind of says so himself in his post.

What do you think? I would like to reshare them with the community. And I also created the missing payload bay doors!

[luro1964]

I vote yes!

[The Mole]

I agree, yes.

[rickstef]

I am ok with it, under the condition that if Arvydas objects, the file gets removed.

If he comes back, and is ok with us hosting the file, then we keep hosting the file.

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Okay, great! I will upload the file tomorrow. (not at home RN)

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Files uploaded. Awaiting approval. (-:

I added some extras. I realised Arvydas made Endeavour (not Atlantis as I assumed earlier), so I also made files for Atlantis, Challenger and Discovery. I had to omit Columbia with her black chines and SILTs pod tail and Enterprise with her completely different skin alltogether. Sorry about that. But this is what I could do. I hope it gets approved and that Arvydas also has no objections.

[rickstef]

File has been approved

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Thanks Rick!

[dhanners]

Thanks for doing that. The photorealistic version has been on my to-do list for quite some time, although I'd like to rescale it to 1/144.

My only lament is that, somewhere along the line, someone hasn't added an alternate part to depict the tail with the drag chute housing.

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Oh shoot, I remade that one as well! My Shuttle has the chute-canister tail and I remembered I made it.

I forgot about it, and it wasn't in the same bin as the other photorealistic files. I will put it in the download section as an add-on. Sorry! It's getting a little messy but to be honest, there are a couple of other things going on right now, so I am a little distracted...
I'll post it in the download section. Good you reminded me of it, David. Thanks!