[ShowCase] Post your Surface Base!

[Startreader]

I've been looking around the forums and I've noticed nobody has posted a Surface Base thread, we have threads about space stations, space-planes, rovers, and even Heavy Lifters, but no Surface Base thread. So, to start this off I'm going to post a picture of my personal favorite surface base made by yours truly

Behold Serenity Base, and let me tell you...she was a pain in the kraken to make, especially since she's on a hill right next to a Mun arch. I'm rather proud of it.

So, I'd like to see YOUR Surface bases and Ground Stations, so post away

[Parkaboy]

Clarke Base, on the Mun. You can see the rover that assembled it docked.

Praxis Base, also on the Mun. Made with the LackLusterLabs mod. It looks cool, but unfortunately these parts are a pain to dock.

The smaller Asimov Base, on Minmus.

Forward Base, on Laythe. Cool thing about this base is that all the modules were sent on the same huge ship, and then dropped individually and put together on the ground.

Again, Forward Base, now with the rover that carried the modules and a plane-rover hybrid that came on another ship, on the next transfer window. One of the modules was designed to refuel this plane. I believe brotoro came up with this configuration, I just adopted it as a module.

[Startreader]

Wow, those are some sweet bases Parkaboy! The Clarke base and the Forward base look especially cool

[Ojimak]

How hard did you look?

Here is a thread, on this very subforum, specifically about bases/colnies that was made 11 days ago.

I apologize for any offense incurred, none was intentional. And I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with a new thread, considering that the old one is several pages back.

-Ojimak

[Startreader]

Oh, well this is embarrassing, well I'll keep this thread up.

[Rune]

Perhaps a merge is in order? The spacecraft repository is a very cluttered place as it is... Any friendly mod around?

[Startreader]

Merge would be nice yes, but no I have not met any Moderator yet

[astroadrian99]

Clarke Base, on the Mun. You can see the rover that assembled it docked.

Praxis Base, also on the Mun. Made with the LackLusterLabs mod. It looks cool, but unfortunately these parts are a pain to dock.

The smaller Asimov Base, on Minmus.

Forward Base, on Laythe. Cool thing about this base is that all the modules were sent on the same huge ship, and then dropped individually and put together on the ground.

Again, Forward Base, now with the rover that carried the modules and a plane-rover hybrid that came on another ship, on the next transfer window. One of the modules was designed to refuel this plane. I believe brotoro came up with this configuration, I just adopted it as a module.

Hey I was wondering can you PM me the craft files you used to build the Foward Base

[Imaginer1]

I'm still not clear on surface bases, like, at all. Getting them docked together and stuff, I can never do it.

[thederper121]

I'm still not clear on surface bases, like, at all. Getting them docked together and stuff, I can never do it.

I know, my Space program isn't really doing alot of things involving space period, it's mostly stuff on Kerbin, I'm kind of far away from any surface bases, I've tried it before but I had a hard time trying to land near my other modules.

[Startreader]

Its really a pain to land dock, but if you know how to park a car, then you know how to land dock, and another issue is that when you're setting up bases on high mass planets, like tylo or laythe, you really need your module to be EXACTLY the right height relative to the module you are trying to dock with, and that's why my first bases were just separate ships huddled together. I suggest setting your first modular bases on low-mass objects, such as Pol, Minmus, or bop (don't try gilly, just simply landing wrong can send your craft traveling for kilometers). and once you get the hang of it, you can land dock easily

[OrbitusII]

I'm still not clear on surface bases, like, at all. Getting them docked together and stuff, I can never do it.

I've started to use KAS to provide easy means of attachment- all I need is a winch and an attachment node, then a Kerbal can go and hook them up. Good for resource transfers at least (if you don't want Kerbals moving through tiny tubes)

[ruiluth]

I have this Mobile Mun Research Facility on the Mun:

It holds twelve kerbals and weighs about 120 tonnes. Sadly, my computer isn't good enough to make a launcher powerful enough to launch it, so i had to cheat . Still, i think it's structurally stable enough to launch from Kerbin. I've gotten it up to 20 m/s on the Mun and driven it more than 20 km. Unfortunately, it clipped into the ground and exploded when i tried to land a crew transfer vehicle near it .

[Odo]

I have this Mobile Mun Research Facility on the Mun:

It holds twelve kerbals and weighs about 120 tonnes. Sadly, my computer isn't good enough to make a launcher powerful enough to launch it, so i had to cheat . Still, i think it's structurally stable enough to launch from Kerbin. I've gotten it up to 20 m/s on the Mun and driven it more than 20 km. Unfortunately, it clipped into the ground and exploded when i tried to land a crew transfer vehicle near it .

Whats that thing in the background?

[ruiluth]

Whats that thing in the background?

Those are the engines i used (with infinite fuel) to launch and land it

[GamerswithCookies]

Could you please post me the links with the mods for Praxis Base? Looked up LackLusterLabs, but could only find tunnels and rails. Thanks in advance!

[Sir_Tramalot]

Did you need to bump a thread for that?