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9/10/15 Spacecraft Friday - The Friday Edition

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Who are you to decide this, I hear you asking, and here's the answer: Me, so nobody. If you're unhappy with my decision, we can work something out. But that’ll require bribery. Motorcycles or Beer are accepted. This is just my opinion after having tested the stock examples and visually inspected the mod craft from their pictures. Yeah I should have tested the mod craft, but I didn’t.

So here we are, it’s Friday. And today I have the honour to host this week’s Spacecraft Friday. It’s surprisingly tough to sit there and to have to choose. What criteria should I use? What standards should I hold craft to? And I couldn’t find something that would work without being a giant douche.

So I went back to basics with it. What looked like it would be fun. And so I have split this week into Stock and Mod. I tested all the stock craft (where downloads links were available), and narrowed it down to what was fun. And these three caught my heart in their own different ways. As for the Mod craft, well the two featured are just freaking neat pieces of art.

There is no reasoning for the order, other than they must be organized into a list. Enough of my rambling, to the Stock craft!

Redshift OTF’s Dual Rotor Helicopter

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I couldn’t not feature this, not only because of my love of things that spin, but mainly because this has to be the most pleasant KSP stock helicopter I’ve flown, and no I haven’t flown them all. For me this example displays an extremely durable rotor bearing, coupled with a low part count, and an easy to handle airframe that gives you a very [helicopter] noob friendly bird. Incredibly easy to fly without SAS assistance. My only gripe, it takes two minutes to fly to the VAB from the runway. Also handles crashing like a champ, probably because you can’t go fast enough to have any problems? Go fly it, and then go fly it under the R&D arch and start kissing the building and watch how the bearing just takes the abuse - it fits, just…

Foxster’s Wonton Duna

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Does what it says on the tin, and is cute as a button. You could carpet bomb Duna with a fleet of these. Make some pew pew noises as you undock them from the cargo bay… Pew pew, 1… Pew pew 2… Although then you’d have to recover all those freaking Kerbals. Ain’t nobody got time for that when there’s fortune cookies to be stuffed! I loved the way it wobbles around like jelly on a plate when you’ve landed on Duna. Joelfry Kerman didn’t seem to enjoy the experience, as the picture shows.

n.b.z.’s Komet

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Holy smokes, this thing is a pig to get in the air. It’s not an easy task. But who cares, if you’ve a gentle hand this thing is like a tiger kitten (I’m aware they have cubs, but cubs just don’t have the same cute factor as the word kitten), cute but will still tear your throat out if you let it. While I didn’t enjoy my ascent, I had this gooey feeling of joy as I pointed her towards the ground and let gravity and lift gently bring me back to the KSC, sweeping, wallowing s-turns, and just the beautiful silence. It’s just too cute. I love how this is replica-enough that you can see its heritage, but its more a homage and it seems to capture the “Kerbal spirit†perfectly. So y’know explosions and reverts before actually achieving success. Try it. You’ll curse, but you’ll be grinning at the same time.

And now for the modded selection:

The_Rocketeer’s KNER K3 Pacific - No. 4472 - 'Flying Kerbman’

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I just had to choo-choose it for spacecraft Friday so I could make that terrible pun that I totally didn’t steal from The Simpsons. Actually, even if I didn’t want to make the terrible pun, I’d be remiss not to have included this monstrosity of a build. This isn’t about functionality, clearly with its whopping top speed, it’s about shovelling coal into a boiler and making choo-choo noises as you flip through the pictures. I’m in awe of the patience that went into it, and look at the details. Now please can you make it go faster?

Azimech’s Optimus Prime

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C’mon who doesn’t freaking love Transformers? ‘nuff said.

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FlipNascar

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Was my Orion replica the giant douche?! 8p

Not at all. It just didn't tickle me like the others I'm afraid, and I applied my personal view of "fun". If you look at the crap that I build, you'll see not many "spacecraft" among them. So it's not that surprising that most of the items featured weren't spacecraft. I'd also like to point you to the Disclaimer... The entire choice of craft was, as with every SCF, subjective.

But just because I didn't love it, doesn't mean others don't.

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SAME! Was this even a weekend. shoot I was too slow on my newest releases :D

Well the last SCF was a bit late, and I 'spose me being in Europe means this one's a bit early.

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Cool, I'd never be able to do a spacecraft friday, as I never actually go into the SE and download crafts, and my taste isn't very good, Interplanetary ship? Nah, too mainstream. Dual-rotor helicopter? Too complicated. Crazy rocket plane? Too low of a burn time. OPTIMUS BLIMMIN PRIME?! Nope, probably too high a part count.

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