[WIP] US Probes - Old and New - Dev Thread

[raidernick]

RELEASE THREAD

Now that I've pretty much wrapped up the Soviet Probes project I am switching my focus back to US related items, specially the probes. I am going to do a LARGE variety and as such I can't specifically state what I am and am not going to do yet. I can however say that I will be focusing on the older probes first, specifically pioneer.

Progress:

-Pioneer 0-11: done

-Aura, Aqua, Terra: done

-Voyager 1-2: done

-Galileo, Magellan: done

-Ulysses: done

-Deep Impact, Deep Space 1, Stardust: done

-Dawn, NEAR: done

-Vanguard 1-3: done

-GRAB-1: done

-Transit-2A: done

-Tiros-1: done

-TDRS A-G K: done

-New Horizons, Messenger: done

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This license does not cover mod packs. Putting my work into a mod pack is prohibited.

Edited February 13, 2016 by raidernick

[Woopert]

Nice work! These will be cool for RSS once they are configured for it.

[raidernick]

Pioneer 10/11 is done. You'll notice I even put the golden plaque on it.

Edited September 2, 2014 by raidernick

[NathanKell]

Very nice!

[Guest]

Looks good, but I see some AO oddities along the edge of the dish. Otherwise, it looks fine.

[raidernick]

I am replacing the pioneer 10/11 model with one from the NASA website, it looks much better(makes sense though). What I need help with is the thruster location. I know there were 6 thrusters on pioneer 10/11. I cannot for the life of me find a picture of these thrusters though so I have no idea where to put them. Does anybody know where they should be or have a good picture of all 6?

[CaptRobau]

This:

[raidernick]

That's what I thought at first, however after looking at the backup model Pioneer H and 10 there are no thrusters in those locations. In these pics you can see what appears like thrusters on the back but the placement makes no sense so I'm not sure.

Edited December 13, 2014 by raidernick

[raidernick]

Unless these TINY black dots are the thrusters?

[ozraven]

According to this diagram, those appear to be the location of the attitude thrusters:

[raidernick]

Ok so here is the redone pioneer 10/11 using NASA's model. I put the thrusters on it in the spots based on the pictures and guessing for the angles I couldn't see.

Edited September 2, 2014 by raidernick

[Guest]

Now that looks really nice. Great job. Would go great with Atlas rocket from FASA. Are you going to make the Star 37 kick motor for it as well?

[Hattivat]

Good job so far, subscribing to see how it develops.

[raidernick]

Now that looks really nice. Great job. Would go great with Atlas rocket from FASA. Are you going to make the Star 37 kick motor for it as well?

I'm only doing the actual probes, no rockets or rocket parts this time.

[Kerbal01]

Maven?

http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6373

[Wallygator]

Dude, this is fab! Rep to you.

[raidernick]

Maven?

http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6373

I have a TON of models in my "to-do" repository. That is in there. I have pretty much every mars/venus/moon probe ever launched by the US including joint probes. It's a major backlog and I'll be working on them in no particular order.

[tg626]

That's awesome. I used to call pioneer when I was a kid.

Yes, there was a phone number, you could hear the telemetry.

[raidernick]

Ok so I have to make pioneer 0-2 from scratch because I don't like the models I have already. So here is my progress so far. I still need to add all the little bolt details and texture it. I'm not sure whether to make it blue or black. I am using the museum model for reference which is blue, but I don't know what it's actual color was since all the pictures are in black and white.

Edited September 3, 2014 by raidernick

[NathanKell]

Oh my goodness! I was about to post begging you to do Able, and...Christmas!

I made one from that kinda-vaguely-Able-shaped AIES probe core and some proc tanks and some proc solids. It was very fun doing LOI on solids.

[DerpyHoovesX]

after releas i can integrate to remote tech

[raidernick]

Ok the modeling is done. Now I need to do the textures.

[NathanKell]

You have each solid motor as its own part, right? Otherwise it's really not going to work...

Very enthused!

[raidernick]

Yes they are separate

[raidernick]

Textures for the top and side of the main body are done. I need to do the bottom textures still and for the detail pieces: