"Extraplanetary Launchpad" Mod - Show us your delivery vehicle!

[TMS]

At present, the mobile launchpad and runway are an unwieldy thing to haul across space. This is causing me a bit of headache regarding the most efficient way of getting the thing landed.

At the moment, I have two large tanks radially attached with decouplers to the upright parts of the launchpad, with poodles beneath them for re-entry and suicide burn. Basically, the who thing looks like a massive cock and balls coming in for landing. After touchdown, the two tanks are decoupled and fly off to their doom. But this is amateurish, so...

The challenge:

• The launchpad and runway have no top attachment node, making a skycrane drop method difficult.
  
• They aren't exactly the impact resistant either, so they need a soft landing.
  
• They are large and linear, meaning that need fairly flat bit of ground.
  
• The launchpad doesn't handle radial attachments very well, making landing struts difficult/ugly to attach.
  

How are people handling this? Would love to see some designs.

[skykooler]

• The launchpad and runway have no top attachment node, making a skycrane drop method difficult.
  

False. The launchpad does have a top attachment node.

[Mic_n]

it does have a top node, yes... but personally I find it next to useless.. decouplers don't seem to "stick" very well, and the bits left over from support struts stay up there when you open it up. I wound up just sticking it on top of a big-ass rocket, myself.

[Srilania]

there is a top attach point, but for some reason, it gets wild and very unstable trying to attach anything up there like that.