Minmus Base Hangar

[eempc]

TweakScale has finally allowed me and my poor laptop to build larger structures without FPS dropping to a standstill. So I built a large hangar on Minmus. It has a few sleeping quarters located on the upper platform and 2 funicular lifts for kerbals to get up and down. As part of the base, there is an ion flyer for 2 kerbals, a science mobile, a fuel scavenging tanker, a mobile crane and a flatbed lorry. There is a spare fuel tank on the right, which is basically an abandoned rocket.

Could do with some hand rails.

This ion flyer on the roof is a replacement for wheeled rovers since it is much easier to get around Minmus on a flying craft rather than rovers.

Cargo is being lifted out of the spaceplane by Cambus Kerman using the mobile crane. Meanwhile Thomthon Kerman is supervising.

[Fox62]

This is just pure win. The only things I can think of that would make this better would be the addition of other mods to make it a self-sustaining base that can send fuel anywhere in the Kerbin system, i.e Low Kerbin Orbit, the Mun, and Minmus orbit.

[Voculus]

That is too cool! Very nice! It goes a long way to make Minmus seem less barren, and more welcoming - just having a roof over your head. Now I need to make something!

[eempc]

Resources would be useful but the base just took delivery of a critical component and 4 kerbals rushed down to see it.

It's a carousel merry-go-round! It rotates clockwise, but it looks like the kerbals are rotating the opposite way because it spins so fast!

[Nik_601]

It's not just a hangar - it's a space port! And it's amazing! Good job

[The Error]

Wow.

This is great. Hrm... maybe integrate a crane into the hangar, just for the coolth?

[eempc]

Just downloaded the latest version of MKS so I can start adding more useful modules to the base like resource collection. A roof Klaw is a good idea considering the mobile crane jumps around so much when rotating. The next base will definitely have this, just have to find a nice flat piece of land on Duna or another planet to start base construction.

Time to activate the VTOL engines and say goodbye to the Minmus spaceport hangar base (for now)!

[mike9606]

Just downloaded the latest version of MKS so I can start adding more useful modules to the base like resource collection. A roof Klaw is a good idea considering the mobile crane jumps around so much when rotating. The next base will definitely have this, just have to find a nice flat piece of land on Duna or another planet to start base construction.

Time to activate the VTOL engines and say goodbye to the Minmus spaceport hangar base (for now)!

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/74625700095680416/FEB49B131704B56AB326A77AB58C299C73FCC0CA/

If you only want MKS for resource collection you can remove it and try Karbonite which is made by the same person who made MKS instead. It allows you to collect called Karbonite and convert it into fuel. It is currently early in development but it will grow. It may sound a lot like kethane, but there is no scanning from orbit. Karbonite is nearly everywhere on each planet according to the creator.

[mike9606]

I need help building a crane. Using Tweakscale I am making a Minmus Base like this with a crane in the hangar, but the telescopic piston will only attach upside down! The only way it is able to attach is where it would extend into the roof of the hangar, but I need it to go down. Can anyone help me?

[eempc]

Cool, I'll check out Karbonite, haven't used Kethane since 0.24 was released anyhow.

I attach the pistons with the little stubby green connection point sticking out (and the rest of the sheathed body inside the structure), but if that isn't working for you, maybe ask in the IR thread.

[eempc]

Wow.

This is great. Hrm... maybe integrate a crane into the hangar, just for the coolth?

Ceiling Klaw laughs in the face of the rotatron's counter-torque! Possibly because the structure weighs 3200 tonnes. Picking up cargo shouldn't be this much fun.

All this effort just to pile up a mess in the corner.

[Remkeau]

Awesome, how did you launch and land that thing if it's so heavy? Must've looked odd

[eempc]

Awesome, how did you launch and land that thing if it's so heavy? Must've looked odd

It was a hyperedit job, I just like building sets these days without the hassle of transporting and connecting bases.

I used to launch them, in this picture you can see the hangar and the rocket to the left, it did look very odd, like a pencil with a hat.

Edited July 29, 2014 by eempc

[mike9606]

Cool, I'll check out Karbonite, haven't used Kethane since 0.24 was released anyhow.

I attach the pistons with the little stubby green connection point sticking out (and the rest of the sheathed body inside the structure), but if that isn't working for you, maybe ask in the IR thread.

Well I tried that and it worked, but it only went down half the distance I wanted it to since the it was inside the roof. I guess I'll stick with a KAS Magnet. (I am using 32-bit, so it should work fine).

[mike9606]

Well I tried to HyperEdit my hangar onto Minmus. It failed because the thing is 415 tons and turns really slow and for some reason the people who made hyperedit decided it was a good idea to make the ship lander drop your ship SIDEWAYS for some retarded reason and it is really making me angry because adding more reaction wheels is only making it worse somehow.

[eempc]

Well I tried to HyperEdit my hangar onto Minmus. It failed because the thing is 415 tons and turns really slow and for some reason the people who made hyperedit decided it was a good idea to make the ship lander drop your ship SIDEWAYS for some retarded reason and it is really making me angry because adding more reaction wheels is only making it worse somehow.

Just drop from a higher altitude, maybe 200 metres and hold down W or S or whatever to orientate. Just make sure you don't run out of battery.

[Beduino]

this hangar is pure win.. my crane would always flip on minmus due to low gravity

[mike9606]

this hangar is pure win.. my crane would always flip on minmus due to low gravity

Well these hangars probably are a few hundred tons, as mine is 415 tons.

[mike9606]

I have discovered that the orientation of the craft when the land function is used in hyperedit is affected by the orientation relative to that part of the planet while you are in orbit. I hit the land button without adjusting my craft orientation in orbit and it was already nearly pointing directly up. I now have a Hangar on one of Minmus' ice lakes. It'll be a challenge to land without mechjeb there as I use Astronomer's Visual Pack V3 Beta and it adds a "Fog" To the ice lakes of Minmus. On a happier note, it just so happens there is a good amount of karbonite where I landed the hangar, meaning a Mining ship is probably the next addition.

[mike9606]

I got my first Karbonite Mining Rig to Minmus. It is 61 meters away from the hangar.

The mining rig has the required supplies to start a pipe system in the 2 KAS containers on top. When the first Kerbals arrive setting the pipes up will be the first thing to do. Oddly enough, the fog has disappeared from around the base.

Here's a view of the base inside the fog.

And from above.

Edited July 30, 2014 by mike9606
More Pictures

[eempc]

Cool stuff, now it's time to populate the base with ships, kerbals, more vehicles and sundries. What does your crane look like?

[mike9606]

My Crane is 2 IR Gantry Rails to move left and right and forward and backwards. A KAS winch and a magnet are used to grab cargo, but it seems that this is not a good design(It glitches out when I try to move it forward and backward and the cargo swings around crazily when I raise it up). A crane truck will be built and delivered to the base to replace the hangar crane.

Here are some pictures of the base in it's current state.

A view of everything.

Up Close.

The kerbal on the left is Melbrett and the one on the right is Newwell. From left to right there is the Cargo Truck which has a functioning cargo door (Pickup truck style), the Fuel Tanker which is full of fuel from the Karbonite mining rig, and the Crane Truck, which will load and unload cargo.

Edited July 30, 2014 by mike9606

[mike9606]

May I have the .craft file of the Cargo Spaceplane VTOL seen on the first page? I can't build VTOLs too well, and a combination of an SSTO and VTOL certainly is something I can't do.

[eempc]

May I have the .craft file of the Cargo Spaceplane VTOL seen on the first page? I can't build VTOLs too well, and a combination of an SSTO and VTOL certainly is something I can't do.

https://www./?c1gpkozlma4mnko

You will need SP+, RPM, IR and MJ for this plane.

The VTOL mode can be a bit shaky, you may need to tweak the maximum throttle of the front engine depending on where your centre of mass has shifted to.

Just review the action groups before you launch.

Press 5 after take off to switch off the front engine. After that, try to beat my (orbital) speed of 1,900 m/s using just the air breathing engines before switching to rocket mode.

You might also need to adjust the rear stabilisers and landing gear to allow take off.

Edited July 30, 2014 by eempc

[Marine07]

Wow! Are you going to build a city on Minmus?