Rocketdude1979

My idea 💡 is to try buying 2nd kit. Build one Observer Folded and for/extra Parts. Launch 1 is the Nerva-Mars-Venus Transit Habitat. Launch 2 are a pair of Aero-brake lifting body that to avoid negative fuel cost will Coast to Mars and do a gravity/Aero-braking maneuver into orbit. They are Mars Habitats that can land like an M2 shaped lifting Body.... Apollo- Style Taxi will provide crew transfer to and from landers and P.O. main ship. Dish Detergent lid to make atmospheric probes for Venus flyby.... I want this to be scientifi

I have decided backing in to dock using the lifting body taxi will be dicey with 📡 and telescopes on top of the Command/observation area on one side and the rotating arms on the other. Docking other craft may be equally taxing, remember Mir? The rear extented section you built could have manned Mars landers docked back there for the trip. (Especially if large). If partly assembled inorbit, A Pilgrim Observer Mars Lander/habitat could be based off of the Well understood M2 Lifting Body shape. There could be a pair docked on either side of the rear engineering site you have bu

By the way, I hope you 🙏 are feeling better. I got Brain surgery right after I got the kit.

In many of the online debates, nobody can seem to agree on the scale of the model. One of the debates comes down to the CSM.... I have seen concept drawings of a CSM w/a shorty service module as it wouldn't be needed for Earth Orbital missions during Apollo Applications.... If this is an expanded CSM or Other Capsule with wider Base (heatshield) to allow crew of 8-12 then perhaps the Service Module is scaled down in length but has appropriate amounts of fuel due to wider circumference vs 3 man CSM. (Think of Saturn V S-II vs S-IVB Stage) I have a million pill bottles arrou

I purchased the brass super detail kit for my Pilgrim Observer. I don't like to waste pieces. The Work Bee/Pod will get Brass replacements.... What to do with the kit's? I think 🤔 of the first Manned Skylab Mission when flying arround the damaged Skylab Workshop..... They attempted to wrestle the remaining solar wing free from the side via Kerwin+Wietz doing a stand up EVA while the CSM was only doing station keeping via thrusters and the crew and Skylab were pulling and pushing on each other, and Apollo was constantly either drafting or almost collidi

Of interest.... I have heard the original release came with a vinyl record that could be played on a normal format Record Player but it wasn't like a 45 or an LP it was like an educational story on Tape....

This X38 "Toy" is going to get a rear docking tunnel to provide clearance between engine bells/fins and station, would be nice if this had a node so as to make docking more controlled.... At least Tunnel protruding out will provide degree of protection lowering chance of engine damage +/or station hull damage from fins.

When I build the rotating arms w/brass, I am going to ♻️ repurpose the plastic braces as lander legs and I am going to use a Spacelab "habitat" as a Mars habitat/base/lander with as part of it. It will get some maybe N-Scale Model RR ladder stock and railing. I may use other Model RR details for items like for fuel tanks....if they look the part! So glad I thought of this! Then will borrow etched doors and an 📡 from kit to dress lander.

I am going to weather this Matchbox NASA SEV -Rover screw to base add LED inside....

I made drawings of "plans" showed my 10 year old, he didn't believe "Daddy drew them"....

Your work on this kit is awesome 👌, I applaud 👏 your work. I can tell we are both mega fans of Space! I thinking of ideas to based off of yours, NASA ideas, Apollo Application, other blogs, freelance.... I just want to have fun. I found a plastic X38 (NASA prototype for a lifeboat for the ISS a Lifting Body that had the same shape as the proposed HL20, the X20A, and the Soviet Rentry Test Vehicle that was photographed in the Indian Ocean by the Royal Australian Air Force..... I am adding it as a taxi as it looks like it belongs. I am thinking about using the discard