I Finished My Space Shuttle!
This has taken me so many hours and I’m very happy with the result
What I did in the past 4 hours:
- I started and completed the large support that connects the body of the shuttle to the external tanks.
I had to cut into the external tank and I used multiple tools to add realism like the extrude tool.
After that, I created cylinder supports that i then connected using the transform and extrude tools.
- I started and completed the small support that connected the nose of the shuttle to the external tanks. I had to use many transform tools to make the correct shape but eventually I shaped it correctly.
- I added a liquid oxygen fuel line to the large external tank and connected it to the system tunnel with many supports. I mostly used the extrude tool for this step. This took the most time to complete in the 4 hours since my last devlog.
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What My Space Shuttle Includes
Realistic external tanks
- Realistic rings surrounding the solid rocket boosters
- Realistic rocket booster shape
- Small realistic features like an access door and forward booster separation modules
- Realistic supports that carry the rocket
- Realistic external tank
- Realistic LO2 feedline and LO2 feedline fairing
- Realistic stringers
- Realistic ring frames
A realistic rocket
- Realistic wings
- Realistic nose with small features like the cockpit window and star tracker doors
- Realistic vertical stabilizer
- Realistic body shape
- Realistic Aft fuselage, which includes the space shuttle’s main engines and also includes the orbital maneuvering system and the RCS thrusters
Thanks for the support on this project! I will likely do a space station for my next project.
I will probably ship this project tomorrow, and then it should be available for printing! I tried to design the shuttle for multicolor printing so you should be able to choose multiple colors. There should be a total of 3 different colors since I wanted to limit the amount of filament colors for printing.
If you still have any suggestions, please leave them in the comments!
Comments 1
Nice, just wondering how you are recording your progress? R u using timelapse?
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