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Hi Al, I need to recover a bit first from my vacation, then I'll get back into my two projects.

Hi Al, I see you were busy while I was on vacation in the US and Canada. Keep it up, the effort is paying off.

Hello everybody, and with that, back to my STS-6 Launch Pad 39A report. After completing and safely stowing the Payload Canister with the associated Transporter as my final sub-project, I returned to the Diorama and, together with my "illumination technician" Arno (McPhönix), further modified the multi-power bank for the pad illumination he had developed. http://www.raumfahrer.net/forum/yabbfiles/Attachments/up045518.gif At that time, the concept of Dio illumination was still in development, and that power bank would have required a

Hello again friends, sorry guys for my long absence, but I had to have my gallbladder removed. I had a plum-sized stone that needed to be removed. I got through it all fine, though, and I'll be back as soon as possible. On next Monday, September 29th, I'm leaving for New York City for my US vacation this year. Among other things, I want to see the Enterprise at the Sea, Air and Space Museum on the aircraft carrier Intrepid. Then I'll be off to Niagara Falls and Toronto, from there to Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. Space

I can't wait to meet you in your homeland in two weeks and discover the surroundings of Niagara Falls.

Welcome back Pete! A little late, but not too late, I noticed your resurrection here in the forum. Great that you've found back to your hobby and congrats on your initiative in memory of the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster next year. In this spirit, I will be accompanying y'all group build project with my Challenger STS-6 project.

Hi Al, great progress with your Crawler. Hold on tight to your dream.

Hi Al, fortunately on this pic one can see also some details of your mesh, which looks rather well. Have a look at this great crawler project Apollo Crawler at 1/72 scale of my friend RichO, where he presented also detailed work with these walkway grids. Maybe it's a help for your work too. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234959313-apollo-crawler-at-172-scale/page-22 I have glued my PE grids on my MLP with CA onto on brass angle profiles, but on Styrene it should glue just the same. But test the paintwork on your grids firs

Hi Al, have you tried painting the 60-mesh? Are the openings still visible, or are they filled? It seems almost too fine to me, so a coarser mesh might be better, maybe even the 30-mesh oder 20-mesh. 20 Mesh Brass .016" Wire Dia Source: .twpinc.com 30 Mesh Brass .012" Wire Dia Source: .twpinc.com And cutting will only be possible with fine scissors, which must be very sharp.

Hello everybody, the gluing of the inner blanket cladding was really a bit stressful and involved some tricky snipping, which I'll want to refrain, so I'll keep it brief and show you the result right away. The two upper ends of the rods are also covered with blankets, on which a few details are located, such as this 'box', the Gamma-ray spectrometer and below it the Neutron spectrometer, Source: NASA which I would also like to at least hint at.

Hello everybody, to err is human, said the hedgehog, and stepped down from the barbed wire. But one after another. First, I started by gluing the marked tape strips onto the blanket foil according to my template, first for the back, and then for both sides. This continuous blanket could also have served well as the inner lining of the rod system. But that was unfortunately also the fallacy of my thinking, because that would only have been correct if I hadn't also glued in the inner struts of the rod system. But during

Hi Al and welcome back. What kind of grid do you want to use now, the 60 mesh grid? Please show us some pics. BTW, why didn't you use suitable handrails made of PE (photo etched)?

Hello everybody, so then to the test fitting, for which the rod system was quickly attached. After bending the sides I added side boundaries by using insect pins. Then I added the X-Band High Gain Antenna, which just barely fits in between. Now I still needed the blanket foil for the inside of the rods, for which I used the existing template, but it had to be slightly smaller. So I carefully marked the protruding edges, which was a tricky job.

Hello everybody, now I had to think carefully about what to do next, as the whole thing turned out to be a bit more challenging than I had initially thought. And with the three-sided blanket foil nothing could go wrong because there was just too much work involved. So, in the next step, I removed all the pins and carefully cut out the blanket, leaving folds all around so I could glue them onto the rod system. This sounds a bit confusing and complicated at first, but it makes sense. The only difficult part was the exact fixation of

Sorry, SpacecraftGuy, just a quick shout out to Pete. I hope you are doing well. Didn't you receive my last emails?