AAV Drop Ship

Hagoth said:
This is looking very nice! Really like the direction this is taking. Your "injury merit" is recognized and all appropriate honors of valor bestowed.
The design ministry is pleased with the reuse of so many original components in the drop ship redesign.

Still plenty of room of room for a 30mm chin turret and with the tandem seating configuration there is now room for check mounted 75mm rocket launchers. :unsure:

The pilots appreciate the AAV turret safety measures. Depending on the pilot position it's either Butt Buster or Brain Buster.
Neither of which is desirable. Especially if you are the one ending up with butt for brains. :eek:o_O
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Thanks! And I guessed you will definitely mention the chin turret.
Yes, that's the best position for ground-strafing weapons.
In order to make that happens, I’m gonna remove the nose landing gear, and now I'm thinking out of an alternative design.

gedmac66 said:
No fees charged for ‘housing’ ,.... ‘friend’ discounts applied !:p

Loving the the changes and incremental alterations to the main ‘drop ship’ !

This build , from start to finish !?:unsure::ninja::devil: ...., is truly a joy to watch Katsu!
You’re taking this to another bloody level !:love:
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See? that's what I'm afraid of.:lol:
Thank you, Ged-san!

NakedMoleRat said:
Just amazing.
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Thank you so much, and also appreciate your kind support for my daughter's Youtube channel.:D
 
With crab leg landing gear who needs a nose gear? You already devised the solution! Make it a wicked big chin cannon! GAU-8A hold my beer kind of epic design. :lol:

Katsu-san, just want to say as a reminder of the amount of joy this thread brings to me and I suspect others. Your updates, your skill, this project, the interaction between everyone, and the humor flying around just make this thread a highlight of each day.
 
Love the stacked cockpit configuration (y) Small detail: the visor of those helmet should be painted with a high gloss finish (but that's just me Katsu-san)(y)(y):notworthy::notworthy:
 
Hagoth said:
With crab leg landing gear who needs a nose gear? You already devised the solution! Make it a wicked big chin cannon! GAU-8A hold my beer kind of epic design. :lol:

Katsu-san, just want to say as a reminder of the amount of joy this thread brings to me and I suspect others. Your updates, your skill, this project, the interaction between everyone, and the humor flying around just make this thread a highlight of each day.
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Thank you, Hagoth-san.
Not only building my models but talking, and exchanging many gags really makes me relaxed and motivated to give it another try if I failed on the day. Not only expecting to have many pleasant comments but not want to disappoint the friends to support me. That thought is important to me. I'm always thinking that I want my model loved by many friends of mine. So it should not be self-satisfying work. Without your support, I wouldn't even be able to build a model that would satisfy myself on my own.
joberg said:
Love the stacked cockpit configuration (y) Small detail: the visor of those helmet should be painted with a high gloss finish (but that's just me Katsu-san)(y)(y):notworthy::notworthy:
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Thank you, joberg-san. Oh, yes, It should be that way of looking. When I build the figures in the first place, I imagined the chopper pilot's helmet, which has a visor cover. I will paint or find some appropriate material to make it.



My friends, you don't have to read the lines below.

Today, I was sitting at my work desk and thinking about the mechanical function and design of the landing gears.

Ok, not the 3 gears including a nose one but to 4.
At the moment the AAV is going to attach to the dropship, The AAV will be driven toward beneath the berry of the ship from behind. When it's all set, The ship will take off vertically and go for cruise mode. Then the four landing gear should be retracted. To where? Into wings? No way. To the main fuselage. But how?
The gear strut will be attached at the far end of the beam structure over-hanged to the sideways and retracted into it and then the beam will be retracted along to the main fuselage. But at the moment of the gear strut fold toward the inside, the body of the AAV will be interfering. Before retracting the gear strut, what if twists the beam structure 90 degrees and then retract the strut. Good! OK, it's coming close.

How long struts are required? If the box structure deployed horizontally, it may be 7 inches. Too long and nothing cool.
What if the box structure has a downward angle. Then the length will be 5 inches. That's cool. How can I rotate and deploy the box and stay hold at a certain down angle? Some kind of a stopper inside. Strong one. Humm...

Finally, I could reach a conclusion. Then I built a beam structure with two rotation axis for the test build.

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Heck! The answer was so simple and wasted the rest of my short life.
It happens all the time these days.
Do I have a brain tumor?

Maybe I can post up something better than today soon.

Thank you, my friends!

katsu
 
Katsu-san, every step in the process of creation is worthy and somehow necessary (or at least educational, which can help you grow and become a better craftsman) to get to the end result.Please don't be too hard on yourself.You are indeed gifted and your threads are a pleasure to follow.
 
Love this peek inside your thought process! Definitely not a waste of time. I like where this is headed.
 
Thank you very much, my friends.
As you all said, solving the problem is the core of fun of this kind of work.
There are a pair of thoughts against each other in me.
Want to carry on this model to the finish line soon.
And the other one is want to try some more idea and enjoy building. I guess you understand.
Every time when I finished the previous model, I always thought that I want to build the next model that would be easier. Never happened.
I hope you stay with me a little more while and solve the problem with me.

katsu
 
Oh, do I ever understand the conflict between finishing and trying one more idea. For me finishing often seems to get pummeled with trying "just one more new idea". I love new ideas and finding different ways of doing things. Makes for lots of start overs or stops and start something new but if I ever run out of new ideas I have several retirement lifetimes of projects to go back and finish. Either way I'll never be bored.

As for staying around, don't worry about that. Not going anywhere. :D
...too many new ideas around here. :cool::cool::cool:
 
What was that first model......12 years ago?
I bet it was still a really great model compared to us all when we first got started.
 
Have you settled on the ‘landing gear’ or it’s configuration Katsu-san ?

What about something similar to the Harriers ‘spindle’ support gear on their outer wing area, positioned in the forward and rear ‘fixed’ sections of your craft (outer or closer to your fuselage - as you will ) they’d retract aftward after deployment , with a ‘normal’ fixed nose landing gear setup ?

Or perhaps an Eagle (Space 1999) compression type strut which would be housed into the forward & rear wing structures close to/part of the main fuselage ?:unsure:

Whatever you end up going with, it’s sure to be brilliant anyway !:ninja::devil::p
 
yuumi2891103 said:
Thank you very much, my friends.
As you all said, solving the problem is the core of fun of this kind of work.
There are a pair of thoughts against each other in me.
Want to carry on this model to the finish line soon.
And the other one is want to try some more idea and enjoy building. I guess you understand.
Every time when I finished the previous model, I always thought that I want to build the next model that would be easier. Never happened.
I hope you stay with me a little more while and solve the problem with me.

katsu
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It is probably because with each build you know what you are capable of, so you can push the boundaries even more with the next one.

I have been thoroughly impressed with each one
 
Hagoth said:
Happy anniversary Katsu-san!
(It's still the 10th for me)
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Thank you!

JediMichael said:
What was that first model......12 years ago?
I bet it was still a really great model compared to us all when we first got started.
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Actually, the first full scratch model from the head down to toe was SPV from the British TV show 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'. I thought it was 2008 if my memory is right. Before I joined the RPF, I posted it on 'Starship Builder' which no longer exists.
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The first original model was 'Tempest'
I started to build this in April 2009 and almost a year later, I found the RPF and joined. That was 2010 when I finished this model.

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gedmac66 said:
Have you settled on the ‘landing gear’ or it’s configuration Katsu-san ?

What about something similar to the Harriers ‘spindle’ support gear on their outer wing area, positioned in the forward and rear ‘fixed’ sections of your craft (outer or closer to your fuselage - as you will ) they’d retract aftward after deployment , with a ‘normal’ fixed nose landing gear setup ?

Or perhaps an Eagle (Space 1999) compression type strut which would be housed into the forward & rear wing structures close to/part of the main fuselage ?:unsure:

Whatever you end up going with, it’s sure to be brilliant anyway !:ninja::devil::p
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Thanks, Ged-san,
I guess it will be rather similar to the Eagle of Space 1999 a bit for its arrangement.

Analyzer said:
It is probably because with each build you know what you are capable of, so you can push the boundaries even more with the next one.

I have been thoroughly impressed with each one
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Thank you, Analyzer-san.
There are many models on my list but yes, they might gonna trouble me.

I built the box structure, this morning.
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I will build four landing gears which will be retracted in these boxes.

Thanks for looking!

katsu
 
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