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1/100th? Could you show pictures ? |
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OK here is my 1/100th fleet
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Wow! What a fleet! Is a paper model? How'd you print it? |
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Personally, I wouldn't bother...
That "artists rendering" of SLS has about as much likelihood of ever seeing the light of day as the "original" SLS artwork showing the "Saturn-inspired" black and white roll pattern paint scheme... for the same reasons... The paint schemes, no matter how "good" they may look, take time and money to apply, and serve no purpose whatsoever, and merely add weight, weight that could go toward more payload. The boosters will be used in expendable mode, flown once and allowed to impact and sink in the ocean. Therefore each pair would have to have these "swooshes" painted on them, which would take time and effort in the form of manpower and manhours spent applying the paint schemes, for no reason whatsoever... Plus, the additional weight of the paint is basically detracting from payload performance, again, for no reason whatsoever. Therefore, it won't be done. The orginal shuttle tanks were painted white because it was realized that 1) they'd be spending MONTHS out on the pad because these first four flights were basically test flights, (only the first two had painted tanks IIRC even at that). In addition, photography after the tank jettison revealed some interesting patterns of the plume impingement and supersonic boundary impingements on the tank, which causes localized heating to a few hundred degrees, enough to blister and burn the paint, making the shock wave locations and heating visible in the burned paint... as well as sooting from the SRB separation motors and plume impingement on the rear of the tank, and friction heating on the front apex of the tank... This photography basically just verified what the engineers had already figured during the design phase. Once the shuttles were not spending SO much time out on the pad before flights, and the photography of the jettisoned tank had demonstrated the same patterns and was no longer relevant (to the extent that it ever was in the first place), there was NO reason whatsoever to continue painting the tanks; in fact it was only additional expense in materials and labor to apply it, and additional weight that came out of the eventual payload capability. The same is still true for SLS. There was no reason to paint the core in the "Saturn-like" patterns, no matter how attractive it might look, and there's no reason whatsoever to paint the boosters with this new "swoosh" pattern as seen in that artwork... In fact, when the new carbon-fiber wound booster casings come out from ATK for the advanced boosters for Block II, it's likely that the boosters will just be left the native carbon-fiber black, and not the painted white steel of the present casings. ATK even uses this appearance in their new nicknames for the advanced booster, the "Black Knight" boosters... SO, eventually, SLS MAY (if development actually goes that far-- it remains to be seen if Congress will actually cough up enough money to do ANYTHING with even Block I of SLS, let alone anything else-- NO missions have been funded beyond the first test flight to my knowledge, and NO money has been allocated for missions or the necessary payloads for them) eventually fly with orange tank/transition and black boosters... once the white-painted steel shuttle SRB casings are all expended and rusting away on the ocean floor a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida as twisted wreckage on the bottom of the Atlantic... IF SLS isn't cancelled first... Later! OL JR
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A Halloween rocket!
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