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Old 02-06-2010, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl@Semroc
We have everything ready to kit the Orion except the wrap. We had considered a paper and balsa-detailed wrap since it is hard to get a perfect styrene wrap.


My son whacked some of your Little Joe wraps and used scrap balsa to make a pretty darn nice looking Orion. You could easily kit the Orion with the same concept. Kody had my Centuri Saturns to go by when making the fiddly bits. Since you can only include drawings in your plans, the toughest part of building the Orion would be the modeler's ability to recreate the 3D shapes accurately with only 2D drawings to go by.

Here is the thread for Kody's Orion. You will be able to see all the small bits that he made to go on the wraps. There is plenty of corrugation detail on the rocket, but it doesn't show up well in the pic.
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