would you buy a joe scale space shuttle?
- Thread starter Wild weasel
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True, but it sure as hell would be an amazing display piece.
So many amazing scientific research projects and developments came courtesy of our use of the shuttle.
Heck, even films like "Armageddon" and "Moonraker" wouldn't have been the same without the use of the Space Shuttle.
Am a huge fan!
And I got just the place for it.
Oh? And where is that!?
Sure, but that doesn't mean NASA astronauts make for cool action figures.
But whatever, it's Dragon so it'll be maybe a line of mediocerly articulated figures that will last one or two waves at most then fade into obscurity.
Earlier this year I used a pickaxe to chisel out an addition to my man cave in Minecraft. So there should be plenty of room now for such a large model. I can always chisel out some more if needed.
Play Nerf with the neighborhood kids and bring this bad boy out of the garage when you suddenly find yourself out numbered. lol
That 1/20th APC model looks pretty damn cool. 200 isn't a bad price for it either. I've paid around that for much, much smaller models. Granted, they were imported from Japan/England, so... But a very cool kit.
The UD-4L was designed after looking at several earlier aircraft as reference. The F-4 Phantom AH-64 Apache and the AH-1 Cobra were among those used.
Movie facts:
APC was built using a airport tug.
The UD-4L was built using spare aircraft parts.
Movie facts:
APC was built using a airport tug.
The UD-4L was built using spare aircraft parts.
Sorry, I was referring to the space shuttle, which is a LOT bigger.
My bad, I missed where you said orbiter. But on the other hand the UD-4L could very well function as one if the job called for it.
I was a bit off on my calculations. I've just updated the image above. But regardless she's still pretty big.
Hmmm. What a project that would be.
My Brother just got married, and his new Father In Law is the Head of the Propulsion Engineering dept at NASA. It was the job of his department to make sure the Shuttle got into space...(He gave me a set of coins that contain metal that has been in space... See below).
I bet he could hook me up with good reference, lol. Like the blueprints, hahaha(Just kidding, he would never do that, lol).
1/32 would be doable though. And could still fit joes. I reckon it could be done as a vacform.
I'd have to check and see if the platens that my vacform supplier have go up to that size.
My Brother just got married, and his new Father In Law is the Head of the Propulsion Engineering dept at NASA. It was the job of his department to make sure the Shuttle got into space...(He gave me a set of coins that contain metal that has been in space... See below).
I bet he could hook me up with good reference, lol. Like the blueprints, hahaha(Just kidding, he would never do that, lol).
1/32 would be doable though. And could still fit joes. I reckon it could be done as a vacform.
I'd have to check and see if the platens that my vacform supplier have go up to that size.
Star Brigade (and eco-warriors) never existed. And if it did, it's the reason that my ass itches.
a friend(well, contact for comandos ema acao) showed me this custom using the estrea gemini(brazil release of the crusader), he's asking $1000 for it, looks pretty cool even though it's way pricey
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I love NASA stuff and I'd love a 1:18th scale Orbiter. As a kid I remember watching the Enterprise flight trials off the back of the NASA 747 on TV. That was always my favorite orbiter despite it never going to space.
I'd would love an entire series of NASA space craft from the x-2 to x-15 and complete space fleet which would include Mercury, Gemini and Apollo plus the Space Shuttle with launch crawler The Apollo would have the the command modual and lunar modual. The Lunar modual would be inside and fold out. A Lunar dune buggy would be offered separetly. The Space Shuttle would have detachable Hydrogen tank and solid rocket boosters. All Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules would detach from their rockets and have opening cockpits. All would come with astronauts from the different series with rocket or sold separate. Maybe just the capsules and CM and LM themselves?