Crackerjazz' 1/10 Lunar Module LM-5 Eagle Ascent Stage
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crackerjazz
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Hey, samster27, thanks! I thought I've lost my fanbase, heheh. It's great to know you're sticking around, despite my taking forever 
Hi, Mike, you're right - I plan to print this in either 1/24 like Vincent Meens' or Whiteroom Artifacts' models, or if I have the budget, scaled up to 1/18 like Nick Sainton-Clark's Moonshot studio model (sans the descent stage - which I might add later on). My original intention, though, for 3D-modeling it was to visualize the model easier and make templates to continue my 1/10. I couldn't figure out what the FIMU looked like from the blueprints until I made the 3D model.
Hi, Mike, you're right - I plan to print this in either 1/24 like Vincent Meens' or Whiteroom Artifacts' models, or if I have the budget, scaled up to 1/18 like Nick Sainton-Clark's Moonshot studio model (sans the descent stage - which I might add later on). My original intention, though, for 3D-modeling it was to visualize the model easier and make templates to continue my 1/10. I couldn't figure out what the FIMU looked like from the blueprints until I made the 3D model.
LMFAOSchwarz
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No worries, Crackerjazz...we're with ya 'till the end! :cool
What I don't understand is how you got so talented so fast! You used to be my favorite asteroid maker, built a great little cetacean sub...then suddenly it's as if you o.d.'d on a bottle of engineer pills or something! :eek
What I don't understand is how you got so talented so fast! You used to be my favorite asteroid maker, built a great little cetacean sub...then suddenly it's as if you o.d.'d on a bottle of engineer pills or something! :eek
crackerjazz
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LOL, thanks, Bob! I'm still a newbie at 3D modeling, but remember last year when all I could do was extrudes and "revolves" - bells, cylinders, axially symmetrical leg parts. Everthing turned around since I learned how to put surfacing into good use - an extemely powerful Solidworks tool. Also, I'm indebted to Vincent Meens and his blueprints (LM-5), because all the vertices are already there. The drawings are mostly coordinates instead of distances - and remind yourself that x is now vertical and y horizontal and you're good to go. Last Christmas I had a long, 3-week vacation, where I did nothing but plot those vertices and that was my springboard. Incidentally, Vincent is now building one, too, using Rhino. Nigel Saunders of Nirvanic Studios has also pulled me out many a modeling rut and has been a constant source of reference and inspiration.
I'm still a newbie at 3D modeling, but remember last year when all I could do was extrudes and "revolves" - bells, cylinders, axially symmetrical leg parts. Everthing turned around since I learned how to put surfacing into good use - an extemely powerful Solidworks tool. Also, I'm indebted to Vincent Meens and his blueprints (LM-5), because all the vertices are already there. The drawings are mostly coordinates instead of distances - and remind yourself that x is now vertical and y horizontal and you're good to go. Last Christmas I had a long, 3-week vacation, where I did nothing but plot those vertices and that was my springboard. Incidentally, Vincent is now building one, too, using Rhino. Nigel Saunders of Nirvanic Studios has also pulled me out many a modeling rut and has been a constant source of reference and inspiration.
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crackerjazz
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Quick update before I leave for work!
crackerjazz
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Made guide holes for the aft thruster housings:
crackerjazz
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Completed the forward section thrusters.
Gotta hit the sack - you become oblivious to time when you're hacking away at something. Not good at all. Eyes burning...flopping down....
Gotta hit the sack - you become oblivious to time when you're hacking away at something. Not good at all. Eyes burning...flopping down....
crackerjazz
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crackerjazz
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Hatch platform gave me a bit of trouble shelling the cabin but it's good now.
Marking the hatch
Marking the hatch
crackerjazz
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Some progress shots. Cutting out the openings.
Hi Nigel, thanks for the info about the box structures underneath not running the length of the cabin. Have to work on those.
Hi Nigel, thanks for the info about the box structures underneath not running the length of the cabin. Have to work on those.
3d-builder
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Just caught back up on this Jazz super sick stuff!!!!:thumbsup
jockdeboer
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Wow! This is incredible work. Go to the yahoo space modelers site. There was talk recently on putting a 3d printed part in some sort of cloud of chemical and it removes the fuzzy part without damaging hopefully the rest of the part.
crackerjazz
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Thanks, 3d-builder Jockdeboer thanks, that acetone steambath is a cool trick for smoothing out printed parts/surfaces. I wonder how much surface detail gets sacrificed there.
Jockdeboer thanks, that acetone steambath is a cool trick for smoothing out printed parts/surfaces. I wonder how much surface detail gets sacrificed there.
crackerjazz
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Some progress with the tracking light.
Colin Droidmilk
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This is absolutely spectacular. Overwhelming.
And actually, I'm glad you went 1/10 and ditched the landing stage. I think the landing stage compromises/obscures the full beauty of the ascent stage. Without the LS, the ascent stage is somehow more magical - I mean, it's the flying head from Zardoz ain't it? To me, that's what's so weird about this vehicle - that a totally functional design should end up looking like a tribal carving of some strange god.
Studying this build has given me a deeper appreciation of the amazing architectonic forms involved here. Thanks mightily!
(Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea - their best stuff of course came from the LEM years...Hancock's 'Hidden Shadows' - space music par excellence)
And actually, I'm glad you went 1/10 and ditched the landing stage. I think the landing stage compromises/obscures the full beauty of the ascent stage. Without the LS, the ascent stage is somehow more magical - I mean, it's the flying head from Zardoz ain't it? To me, that's what's so weird about this vehicle - that a totally functional design should end up looking like a tribal carving of some strange god.
Studying this build has given me a deeper appreciation of the amazing architectonic forms involved here. Thanks mightily!
(Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea - their best stuff of course came from the LEM years...Hancock's 'Hidden Shadows' - space music par excellence)
crackerjazz
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Hi Steve, thanks! The ascent stage does have a certain charm about it, with its odd but captivating design. Hidden Shadows -- thumbsup:thumbsup
The ascent stage does have a certain charm about it, with its odd but captivating design. Hidden Shadows -- thumbsup:thumbsupcrackerjazz
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Rendezvous window...
crackerjazz
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Worked on the docking window reticle.
A dab of white paint....
A dab of white paint....
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jockdeboer
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Once again super nice work!
