Spacecraft Mariner 5

[Gargantua2024]

Lately I'm very thrilled at the Mariner series of space probes of the 1960s, and the relative difficulty of flying them in Orbiter. And since Mariner 4 and Mariner 6 became available for download again on OHM, I found out that only Mariner 5 hasn't been made into an addon yet. So I decided to create one.

Here's the mesh being created from Blender so far (derived from Mariner 4's mesh since the articles state they nearly share the same design):



Solar panels were shortened and changed its support structure based on these images below:


Not a perfect match tbh yet

 

[4throck]

Perhaps you should build an accurate 3D model from scratch? The shapes are simple and mostly a repetition.
And you have (at least) one proper diagram as reference:

File:Mariner 5 diagram.png - Wikimedia Commons

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[MaxBuzz]

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