Yukon0009

Finally got the shuttle to fly correctly (somewhat, it's more or less uncontrollable without Mechjeb stabilization with my limited piloting skills) and I'm moving on to testing and flying the whole stack.

Thanks, yeah all of it is made of flags. The proportions are slightly off because I didn't look at the reference pictures when I was building it, but I spent quite some time making it as smooth as possible. Here's a better view of it: The flags really are great for this sort of thing. It's about 600 odd parts, which seems like a lot but the flags make it less laggier than you would think. The diving planes don't work on mine, theoretically it should be pretty easy to make them actuate with BG but I just didn't bother. Also, do you plan on putting your sub up for download?

That's so cool, love the little details on top of the sail! I see it also took you many versions to figure the buoyancy too.

Some screenshots I've taken with TUFX

Something rather different, a replica of the Project 667 aka Delta class submarine. It maneuvers like a bus both underwater and on the surface which is to be expected, and the submerging system works almost perfectly, which I'm happy with. The thing on the back is a silo for the missiles, and I do plan on making an orbital rocket capable of being fired out of the sub.

Hands down, best Apollo replica done in KSP to date. Absolutely amazing work! All of it looks so good.

Thank you, it took a really long time to both build, test and fly everything in this replica, and there were plenty of kraken attacks along the way. It's a pleasant surprise to see you still around btw. The lower stage uses the HECS2 probe cores, and the upper stages uses a large variety of parts, such as probe cores, fuel tanks, thermometers and parachutes. Here is a closer look at the LEM https://imgur.com/gallery/IUtokYB

WIP Stock ISS, ~1500 parts

yes!

Originally, I was only going to build a custom launch pad for my Shuttle, but somewhere along the line I got a little carried away and ended up building the entire launch tower, oops. The launch tower is ~1200 parts and the shuttle is ~1400 parts

Oh my, that is absolutely stunning., really love the details on the F-1s in particular. In my experience something that helped with the inevitable explosions and kraken attacks was testing each stage individually, with placeholder boosters instead of the rest of the Saturn's stages, it'll make it easier to focus on making each stage flightworthy.

Further progress on the shuttle

Jeez @Dman979 I think the last time I posted in this thread must have been a good 4 years ago Forum replies make this too easy, just gonna throw it back at you lol

holy s*#@ that does not even look like stock parts anymore. so. much. detail. truly amazing work on that LM,

I'm very happy to hear that! Though, your computer will probably appreciate it less...

Saturn V now released!

It's been a very long while since I released anything on the forums, and longer still since I started working on this replica. I've been working on and off on this replica for over a year, and the sheer complexity of this thing made it very hard to really finish. Unlike the real thing, I couldn't do any "all-up" tests and I had to do flight testing of every stage, and let me tell you, it was difficult-I spent a lot of time just making the first stage not explode on launch. And because of how long I spent building, I made many changes here and there to the craft, never being really satisfied with the results. And the part count also ballooned, from just around 700 for the early versions to a whopping 2577 in its current form, which made testing even more difficult. Combined with having to study for my final exams, this thing has spent a long time on the backburner. That's why you'll see some outdated aesthetics methods used on this craft, most notably the custom lettering on the second stage. Normally would have swapped it out for flag lettering, but I was so proud of that I decided to keep it instead even at the cost of about 400 more parts. But now, I've finally finished this thing. Hope you like it. FLIGHT MANUAL Saturn V ascent 1. Stage to activate main engines, then slowly throttle up: do NOT hit full throttle. 2. Fly straight up to 2000m 3. Slowly start your gravity turn, do NOT make large control inputs 4. Don't be alarmed when there are sudden spikes of lag during stage separation 5. Ignite Stage 2 engines after the sepatrons burn out Unbreakable joints and infinite heat tolerance is recommended for ascent Transposition and docking 1. Stage the fairing 2. Make sure you don't decouple the wrong part (check the staging, I'm not sure if its right) 3. Perform the usual docking stuff Landing 1. Enter low (~10km) munar orbit 2. Zoom your camera into the CM, the three kerbals are housed in chairs, EVA them across to LM 3. Zoom camera into the back of the LM, you should be able to see the chairs in there 4. Munar landing: do not spend fuel loitering, it does not have the fuel margins to do so 5. After surface operations, set throttle of the LM descent engine to 0, hold SAS radial out 6. Stage and separate ascent module, initiate gravity turn higher than with normal mun missions 7. Rendesvous and dock with CSM: you may have to switch to the CSM if the ascent module runs out of fuel Returning to Kerbin should be straightforwards enough, not going to bother writing instructions here Flight pics DOWNLOAD

Thought that was just your own kerbal lore until I looked it up, god damn it actually did have 7 turrets lmao. Very nice ships and planes, always love seeing your builds

Thank you ^^ Yeah I really do spend way too much time on these....

Finally, a successful test flight.

I got some of them from a KSP discord server, but for the rest I just took them off google and made it into the right proportions in MS paint, also for the shuttle names I used a font generator (Helvetica bold) and did the same in paint.