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PMed you with some info. Will be in touch this weekend as work allows, but FWIW, the basket or horse collar would only need to retrieve the astronauts and the diver, no cargo pallets. Want to make sure I'm clear on this...retrieving multiple crew members and the diver does not appear to be a...

That is correct.

The recovery addon was intended as a supplement to Gemini 4.5, but the spashdown/recovery sequence required a separate Gemini model because the hatch opening, marker dye dispersal and floatation collar/liferaft deployment were not coded into Gemini 4.5. There's no EVA per se, just picking up...

The attachment point is currently a hook at the end of the winch cable. Once the astronaut is recovered, the hook (with astronaut attached) is rotated into the helicopter. Since the hook is part of the helicopter mesh, and the astronaut is attached to it, he doesn't fall back into the water...

Would you be able to implement the recovery basket or a horse collar on the winches because currently it attaches to the astronauts' suit harness? It works, but not very realistically. The choppers can also only recover one astronaut at a time with the current (SC3) configuration. I'm also...

Are they the Heller or Revell kits? I've built several of each but now that Dragon has released their 1/72 scale kit with proper Block II CSMs, they're at the top of my "to do" pile. They all build up into nice display pieces and don't take up too much space on the shelf. Please post photos...

I do understand that Neil was a very private man and didn't care for the "celebrity" aspect of being the first man on the moon. But I still believe that a state funeral would've allowed the public to pay their respects in a manner befitting the honor he brought to this nation.

Not quite yet. Looking into UCGO for the choppers, carriers and gemini spacecraft. It should improve the realism over the current SC3 configurations. That is actually Saturn V's work. The original model was done by Kev Shanow & retextured by Saturn V, along with some additional modifications...

I am appalled and disgusted beyong belief that this nation didn't see fit to honor him with a state funeral. If anyone was deserving of one, this was the man.

I've more or less inherited the incomplete Gemini recovery add on from Saturn V. As I mentioned with respect to your SH3, he finished the models/meshes (reworked SH3/ new UH34/ new carrier and I think there's a destroyer in there somewhere). They're pretty poly-heavy, but the detail is...

Over the past 50 years, I've watched the people who could be called a real American hero dwindle in number. Not so much by their passing, but by the lack of real achievements by others that should have been shining examples to the youth of the world...and maybe to a lesser degree by our own...

Yeah, well, a steel grappling hook to the spine will do that...:lol: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BTW: Showed this to my brother-in-law (Saturn V). Said if the bugs get worked out, he wouldn't mind...

Time to charge an electric vehicle is totally unacceptable to me. 8 hours + in many cases unless you pay the extra $ for the higher capacity charger - which cuts the charge to about 3 hours...but halves your battery life to 3 or 4 years. Replacing the battery would cost more than most current...

Been a Rush fan since '77 (have seen them at least 30 times since), so yes, I'm a Rush fan, and yes, it's always great to have "new" material (not really new, they've been playing a lot of these songs live for the past 4 years), but the production value of Clockwork Angels is nowhere near up to...

Hadn't considered those points. Just figured SSU has its own launch complex and there are already a few upgraded LC39 addons. Perhaps a bit of near-sightedness on my part.

I certainly hope not either. Unfortunately, with all of David's addons taken down from OH, it does kind of render the lightning towers N Molson, and the new pads I was working on a moot point.

As I remember, David pulled the fleet a number of years ago (the old M6 forum was the main meeting hall at the time so you won't find reference to it here). Don't remember an explaination then either, but he did bring it back (again, IIRC, completely revamped) several months later. Hopefully...

Looks cool! Here's an "in progress" shot of the new MLP. Hard to see the railings, but they are there. All detail is 3D. Probably not quite 1/2 done, but once the decks & railings are complete (painstaking as I'm sure you know), the sides should'nt take that long.

Not much to see as yet. The detailing on the MLP is about half done (pipes/stringers/railings/etc). LOX & LH2 tanks done, but the piping for the pad isn't laid in yet. Models will be high poly count as you can't show this level of detail with textures alone, but Saturn's pad 19 was based on the...

As I posted earlier, my brother-in-law (he did the hi-res version of LC19 for Gemini) & I have been redoing LC39A & both versions of LC39B since Shuttle Fleet 4.8 came out. Concrete pad structures are done & new MLP is almost complete. Probably wont be any ground modeling as there was for pad...