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pTrevTrevs

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  1. Does anyone remember the munar orbit station I started a month or two ago? Well I found out yesterday that I still had it, so I finally sent up the first crew.

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    BTK-3 launches on a Zenit rocket for the Salyut M-1 station. Bill, Bob, and Valentina are all squeezed inside the Command Module for a two day trip.

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    One relatively uneventful launch later, BTK and the Zenit upper stage are in parking orbit, preparing to perform TMI. Later missions will use a more powerful upper stage to save maneuvering fuel in the spacecraft.

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    Here, have a free desktop background!

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    And another.

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    BTK in munar orbit, just before beginning the rendezvous with the station.

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    Thanks to all the docking lights I put on the station, a night docking was possible. Also, I did the the whole thing with MechJeb... Please don't hurt me.

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    Here's the station's current layout: Core Module on left, Cargo Logistics Module in the middle, and BTK-3 docked on the right. The next move is to get another docking adapter up here so more APAS equipped spacecraft can dock with the station, and then get the Solar Truss installed.

  2. A little side project while I wait for CommanderSpock to iron out the problems with the Mark IV Tank:

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    A Type VIIB U-Boat in the works. I still have to build the side fuel tanks, fill in the interior, and test the thing. I doubt I'll be able to put torpedoes in it, so I'm using structural intakes as a substitute.

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    Side profile view. It may need to be a little bit longer, and possibly have a larger upper hull, but it looks pretty close to scale here.

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    Oh boy, look at all this interior space I have to play with! I can probably do a full interior, I found some good reference photos to use. :cool:

    ​Just kidding about the sub tech war, Azimech's sub is still better than this little boat.

  3. I think the wings need work, and the engines could use a little aesthetic improvement.

    A good trick to make the jet engines look smaller is to use radial symmetry to put a bunch of structural intakes around it.

    Example: http://i.imgur.com/ROdQXaU.png

    EDIT: As for the wings, you can see A good profile of them here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command,_1939-1945._CL2946.jpg

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