Show off your strutting skills!

[theend3r]

Since the next update should supposedly lessen the need for struts (a bit) it is time to remember all the heroic deeds the struts have done for us and show off our most strutty creations.

This is my Eve lander being brought into orbit (unfortunately don't have a day picture):

[Kasuha]

Here, have my Eve bi-lander. Both lander units are mounted radially to the core and are sitting almost exclusively on struts.

[Ravenchant]

Look ma, angled engines!

This is what happens when your mothership needs to get to orbit in one piece-you glue rockets to its heatshield. Yes, it did orbit. But just barely.

(Everything above the orange tanks is suspended on a single cubic octogonal strut... plus regular struts. Lots of them.)

Edited February 14, 2014 by Ravenchant

[SRV Ron]

Huge Jool mission ship.

And, it flies without any spin issues.

Placing over 100 tons into orbit.

[theend3r]

Here, have my Eve bi-lander. Both lander units are mounted radially to the core and are sitting almost exclusively on struts.

http://i.imgur.com/Xeky34i.jpg

That's ingenious! How many parts does that have?

[Overfloater]

How's this? Nothing fell off... ;D

[Red Iron Crown]

My struts always end up looking horribly asymmetrical. I wish the second attachment point could be made to snap to angles as well.

[theend3r]

My struts always end up looking horribly asymmetrical. I wish the second attachment point could be made to snap to angles as well.

Yeah, me too. Or just attach points where struts could be placed and then allow on the fly strutting to strenghten crafts assembled in orbit.

[FITorion]

[Brofessional]

That's from like .20 or something, these days I use the joint reinforcement mod, so I don't use many struts.

[Spartwo]

So overdone.

[Levelord]

[Levelord]

[Soda Popinski]

Levelord, that's a really cool design. Looks like a pull design, like the Venture Star from Avatar. Do you have it documented anywhere else in the forums?

Anyway, here's mine. It's not about over strutting, just stability. You can't really see it too well, but surrounding the central truss (girder segments), I have parallel struts mounted to raised girder segments. This is to provide both tensile and compression resistance to keep the ship from wobbling too much while performing maneuvers (heavy ends like the wobble).

For all the other struts, which are the visible external struts, I used the strut attachment modules from Kerbal Attachment System (KAS). Here's a video of Jebediah placing the struts at 3000% speed.

For anyone interested, here's the complete Mission Report, so far:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/64251-Jool-Mission-Discovery-2-A-Space-Oddity-%28updated-2-14-with-better-video%21%29

[Whackjob]

[Captain Sierra]

http://i.imgur.com/uUURA8Y.png

http://i.imgur.com/tHSE3xD.png

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