Tutorials or help with my heavy lifters? Stuck :(

[capi3101]

Let's see...57 tonnes is the payload, right?

I'm'a gonna direct the OP to the twin Temstar threads -

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/28248-Is-asparagus-the-best-staging-system-%28might-contain-science%29?p=346702&viewfull=1#post346702

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33381-0-20-2-Zenith-rocket-family-%28modernised-for-0-20-x-with-perfect-subassembly%29

Now, in the event that the OP doesn't have all the prerequisite tech for the Zenith series (I didn't catch whether this was a career game or not), I will say that recreating the Zenith VII (which would cover the 57 tonne payload) is reasonably simple affair. You'll need to use the technique Col_Jessep demonstrated in his post and you should not hesitate to use parts clipping to attach the engines (incidentally, an even lower tech way to do that is to use Modular Girder Segments turned on their ends - they allow fuel flow, they're substantially less massive than Tail Connectors and they're Starting Tech; the only downside is that they look like crap). Temstar's asparagus principles (first link) will be of great use here.

[m1xte]

This is how i make my "Orange Monster" launchers which are very efficient at putting ridiculous things to orbit.

The launcher rarely fails usually it is the payload or its attachment.

Skinny "Orange Monster" ready to throw tanker into LKO

If you look carefully this picture you see all important connections.

Formula goes-> 4-2-1

To put 1 orange tank and some crap to orbit youll need about

4 orange tanks with mainsail to vertical ascent stage

2 orange tanks with mainsail to gravity turn stage

1 orange tank with mainsail to orbital insertion stage

Scaled up "Orange Monster" 1050t to LKO

[Hodo]

My only heavy lift rocket, HV Rocket. It can push about 50 tons into an orbit of 100km x 100km.

But most of the time I move anything heavier by my SSTOs.

SP-406, 108 ton load into a 100km x 100km orbit

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or the SP-400, which can carry a 72 ton load into a 100km x 100km orbit.

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The trick is finding that balance point so your rocket doesn't get top heavy as fuel drains from the bottom, but isn't SO heavy it wont get off the ground.