I almost got stung by a bee today IRL

[Xyphos]

and I've never felt more inspired.

Now only if KSP was multi-threaded, I'd have a swarm of these things collecting "nectar" from local "flowers"

Edited July 8, 2015 by Xyphos

[T-Bouw]

Wahaha! KSP animals/insects always make me smile.

Good job!

Did you launch it into space proper or was it an edit?

It looks like it would fly horrendously.

[theJesuit]

My sympathy for the resultant stress that it caused. Yet I'm pleased for your ability to focus that danger into a constructive building and sharing experience.

Peace.

[kiwi1960]

Name it.... Mohamed Ali!

... Sting like a bee, float like a butterfly...

[Xyphos]

Wahaha! KSP animals/insects always make me smile.

Good job!

Did you launch it into space proper or was it an edit?

It looks like it would fly horrendously.

It's only 8.8T so I launched it to suborbit with SRBs then circulized under it's own power.

Surprisingly, it flies fine. The LV-N has enough fuel for 5.3 minutes of burn time according to Kerbal Engineer, and only needs 2 minutes to reach a class A asteroid. There it can harvest 300 units of ore and drunkenly stumble it's way back to an orbital processing plant.

Alternatively, I may stick a radial parachute on it's back and try to recover the ore for funds.

However, looking at the pictures again, I forgot to add the orbital scanner for its mouth / mandibles