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Your wierdest ship ever?

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MGCJerry

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My weirdest ship was 2 kethane mobile refinery & 2 mobile driller rovers that were being launched in one shot. It had a weird skycrane with the 4 rovers attached. Empty, the payload was easily over 100 tons but launch weight was 170 tons or so. I did get it to the Mun on a few different launches really close to where I was going to set down at only for RCS to stop working every time before touchdown.

Levelord... No idea why those ships are in this thread. They look great! :)

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cantab

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Man this is a toughie. But I think my number one weirdest ship has to be the Nobel, a mission to deflect an asteroid using only the explosive force of decouplers.

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It has four "bombs" originally but two had to be jettisoned en route to save weight. The remaining two nonetheless had enough explosive force to do the job.

Honourable mentions from my archives:

A rocket that flies backwards: https://flic.kr/p/oPcP8s

What it takes to achieve 40 km/s with a 60 ton boat as the payload: https://flic.kr/p/oGGiYs

How to test a Mammoth engine in flight on Kerbin: https://flic.kr/p/s8uvFc

Looks normal, but know that the outer pair of boosters was attached using KAS when the rocket was already out on the launchpad: https://flic.kr/p/rbNbpo

My weirdest *plane* ever: https://flic.kr/p/qiW69v

Holy Kraken, a rocket chainsaw: https://flic.kr/p/pU1poQ

Building bridges: https://flic.kr/p/pAeYdV

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Sharpy

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Probably my 2STO. An abandoned research into an SSTO attachment which would leave a fully fuelled spaceplane in orbit and return to base like a spaceplane. It started off pretty simple but the failed attempts would lead to increasingly degenerate solutions.

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And here's the spaceplane extricating itself from the ring of engines. No, bodywork doesn't come out unscratched. Some serious force is necessary.

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Some earlier attempts were arguably even more degenerate but the "turtleneck" was the first to make it to the orbit.

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Well, there's always X-BOW launch system too.

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Goddess Bhavani

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Oh my word, this has to be the most amazing compendium of unusual craft.

I like cantab's decoupler "torpedo boat" for the sheer number of little parts, those are rows upon rows of decouplers!!

Streetwind's 'wrecking ball' is so hilarious and the figher looks a bit like The Last Starfighter. Those interesting spaceplanes and Sharpy's X-Bow launcher (Does it work!? I wanna see a video if you have one!)

And I do agree Levelord's space fighter like craft and starship looks pretty authentic and well made. Esp that circular section of solar panels (if those are solar panels)

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MartGonzo

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My mind is boggled by this thread :confused:

You guys have so much more imagination than me!

my craft all tend to be a bit ordinary.

That's stunning!

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Dolkramp

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First one is from way back .10-ish. Odd contraption thanks to Sunday Punch's Wobbly Rockets and Nova Silisko's SIDR pack

Next is from some version from last year. A mobile miner/refinery inspired by Dune's Mobile Spice Harverster using an amalgam of a zillion mods.

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This will probably be one of the tamest ships on this thread, but I still can't get over how funky this Spaceplane has gotten as I keep tweaking it week after week. All of this to just tow a non-SSTO spaceplane into orbit.

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Sharpy

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and Sharpy's X-Bow launcher (Does it work!? I wanna see a video if you have one!)

I didn't have any video recording software at the time I built it, but I do have now and the "craft" is still there...

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Goddess Bhavani

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Lol! Food themed craft are the best. Here, have a burger rover. It never really caught on as an orbital restaurant for obvious reasons :D

From prev page:

From Xacktar: http://i.imgur.com/xC7j6sz.jpg

^ OMG the Reapers are coming!

From parameciumkid http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/27/45/47/screen25.jpg

^ This looks to be an epic torchship. What are the orange thingies?

OMG so cute. Btw I have started to use pink, green and cyan for my 'orientation lights'. I tried the full rainbow but that killed the framerates lol.

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