Small Craft Megathread

[Chel]

Welcome to the Small Craft Megathread. From here, you can post your small craft/s in any way you see fit! Modded craft(s) are also acceptable, but you will have to include the link to any mods that you used parts of in your design. I am permitting, say, a picture of a large craft with the small craft (like a little shuttle) around the large craft, but the photo(s) will have to be focused on the small craft. Rovers are also accepted, as are sea vessels (they must be seaworthy though, so don't just build a little jetski or something and have the pictures of it on land, they will have to also be in water). Anyway, enough talking!

[fourfa]

I'll play: 5t SSTO

https://kerbalx.com/fourfa/Nano-SSTO

[Combatsmithen]

6 minutes ago, fourfa said:

I'll play: 5t SSTO

https://kerbalx.com/fourfa/Nano-SSTO

Infinite fuel?

[fourfa]

Nope, it just takes advantage of the stock high-density sorta clippy magic of the Round-8 fuel tank stacking

[StahnAileron]

What's the upper-limit cut-off for the definition of "small"?

[KAL 9000]

15 minutes ago, StahnAileron said:

What's the upper-limit cut-off for the definition of "small"?

10t sounds right, but I'm not the OP.

[StahnAileron]

11 minutes ago, KAL 9000 said:

10t sounds right, but I'm not the OP.

That's just mass though. I was actually talking about physical dimensions. It's possible to have a VERY dense craft if one wants with clipping. (As already demonstrated with ROUND-8's.)

[Triop]

I can do small:

[NSEP]

23 hours ago, StahnAileron said:

What's the upper-limit cut-off for the definition of "small"?

Whatever your feels say. A maximum 5x5x5 meter craft is small to me..

[ScriptKitt3h]

Small SSTO

[Spartwo]

Little fighter.

Tiny lander.

Widdle shuttlepod.

Bitsy rover.

Mini station

 

Had a similar thread years ago. Highlight was @Giggleplex777's work.

He's got his own thread.

Edited May 20, 2017 by Spartwo

[Castille7]

LiL Bit

Minute

Inkling

Old Mini F14

Old Mini craft used to land on Laythe

[selfish_meme]

Mini Shuttle STS Gargantua

Mini Soyuz

[kapteenipirk]

Small crafts eh, well, here's a couple of craft you'll be seeing once KSP 1.3 comes out.

They where built in the 1.3 prerelease, and are now inaccessible because i reverted back to 1.2 to get some proper stuff done.

 

The first one is what i call the ITB (interceptor test bed).

It was a scaled down interceptor model used to test all kinds of fancy doodads. It also served as an aerodynamics tesbed for a next generation interceptor, that eventually turned into the KF-18 Fornet.

A lot of our engineers that took part in that project said that the original ITB was just too cute and fun. So, instead of scrapping the prototype R/C jet, they brought it back to the KSC and are now using it as a "big boys R/C park flyer"

 

 

 

The other aircraft is a four engined "Protected cargo plane" that served in KW2 as a personal transport for many high ranking officers that wanted to feel a little safer/comfy while flying into the front-lines.

This one is of course a scaled down replica of it built by a small group of KSC staff as "party piece" to be used in airshows and conventions.

[SinisterSonar]

21 minutes ago, kapteenipirk said:

Small crafts eh, well, here's a couple of craft you'll be seeing once KSP 1.3 comes out.

They where built in the 1.3 prerelease, and are now inaccessible because i reverted back to 1.2 to get some proper stuff done.

 

The first one is what i call the ITB (interceptor test bed).

It was a scaled down interceptor model used to test all kinds of fancy doodads. It also served as an aerodynamics tesbed for a next generation interceptor, that eventually turned into the KF-18 Fornet.

A lot of our engineers that took part in that project said that the original ITB was just too cute and fun. So, instead of scrapping the prototype R/C jet, they brought it back to the KSC and are now using it as a "big boys R/C park flyer"

 

 

 

The other aircraft is a four engined "Protected cargo plane" that served in KW2 as a personal transport for many high ranking officers that wanted to feel a little safer/comfy while flying into the front-lines.

This one is of course a scaled down replica of it built by a small group of KSC staff as "party piece" to be used in airshows and conventions.

Is the last craft stock? Or are those modded propeller engines?

[fourfa]

They're jets with antennas stuck on to look like props.

[NotAnAimbot]

Mini fighter

Mini tank

 

Used BDA(c) 

 

Edited May 26, 2017 by NotAnAimbot

[kapteenipirk]

4 hours ago, BogusDionysus48 said:

Is the last craft stock? Or are those modded propeller engines?

Yep, both are fully stock.

[SinisterSonar]

4 hours ago, kapteenipirk said:

Yep, both are fully stock.

So in ksp 1.3 they have propeller engines?

[selfish_meme]

5 minutes ago, BogusDionysus48 said:

So in ksp 1.3 they have propeller engines?

No, not unless you build one, or mod the game

[SinisterSonar]

37 minutes ago, selfish_meme said:

No, not unless you build one, or mod the game

That's too bad

[kapteenipirk]

1 hour ago, BogusDionysus48 said:

So in ksp 1.3 they have propeller engines?

Yeah, as Selfish_meme said, you have to build them yourself.

In this case, a 0.5m intake makes up the engine cowling, while a nosecone works as the crank case. The sylinders are small communitron antennaes, and the propellers are bigger communitron antennaes.

It uses jet engines mounted in the rear of the inboard engine nacelles to propel it.

[SinisterSonar]

On 2017-05-26 at 8:50 AM, kapteenipirk said:

Yeah, as Selfish_meme said, you have to build them yourself.

In this case, a 0.5m intake makes up the engine cowling, while a nosecone works as the crank case. The sylinders are small communitron antennaes, and the propellers are bigger communitron antennaes.

It uses jet engines mounted in the rear of the inboard engine nacelles to propel it.

lol I didn't see that it was made for of smaller parts! 

[Chel]

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