posted 04-19-2013 11:02 AM               

It did not come with a mounting system so I took a discarded stand for the Danbury Mint Apollo 13 display and modified it to look like the Canadarm deployment. Also relocated an actual flown Hubble insulation piece with it.

posted 08-04-2013 11:23 PM               

I figured the best place was alongside the RCS model we picked up from Pascal with the 1/12 scale LM and CSM.

Hard to take a good picture due to the furniture (I guess furniture is important in a living room) but I did want you to get a feel for the flow of the room.

This is a cool piece of GSE that I picked up from Scott so I also included a picture from him of the GSE in a real RCS engine bell.

posted 12-25-2013 06:00 AM               

All of the discussion on the new cS patch inspired me to finally come up with a patch design for our home collection. I did the concept and had Gary Milgrom help with the graphic artwork.

AB Emblem did the work (thanks to Kati Phelps) and it turned out great.

Here are the highlights of the design: The patch is oval in representation of the classic Gulfstream cabin windows (hey, they paid for the collection by paying me), the blue background is also a reflection of the classic Gulfstream company color.

The name Karst-onian came from our VP of Service Center Operations. While travelling together with other leadership members the subject came up about things people collect and he proclaimed that nobody had anything on the Karst-onian collection (a play on the Smithsonian, of course). Well the name just fit (he still keeps asking for royalties). The spelling of Kollection came from a post from cS member Jonathan Ward with reference to our "K"ollection.

The vehicles represent our favorite programs (just no room for the ISS) and as it would be, the STA right in the middle as my direct connection with NASA and manned spaceflight.

posted 01-03-2014 10:11 PM               

The first and I must say the one I have had sitting around far too long, is a semi scale SLS (1/144 scale). I had hoped that by now there would have been something on the commercial market but it does not appear to be the case, therefore this is the year I complete what was stated a year ago.

Second is a recent find. We picked up a damaged ET/SRB 1/48 scale model. As we already have a 1/48 shuttle stack I decided that this would make a good Shuttle C model so that is what we are working toward (the red nose cones are made from large Christmas ornaments we found in Hobby Lobby, just the correct contours).

Finally there is the 1/20 Saturn V first stage (S-IC) cutaway. We won this on eBay last year and had to drive to Cleveland and retrieve it. I worked the "boat tail" over the Christmas Holiday and need to refurbish the fuel/LOX attachment tubes, mount them together and display it. We have a spot in the dining room all ready for it.

posted 01-27-2014 03:40 PM               

I would appreciate hearing from anyone that may have any background on this model or one like it as it was an eBay win for me and the seller bought it from a guy in Florida and that is all I know of it.

Now we are onto the Shuttle C rebuild!

posted 01-27-2014 07:14 PM               

In person you can see the exterior, it is just very difficult to photograph.

posted 02-11-2014 10:37 AM               

Sitting at my work desk I saw another eBay win, a shuttle with no paint, no engines and missing the left side cargo bay door. It was while I was looking at that my wife Jackie saw me and said that it would be cool to smash the two together (I am so blessed).

She also remembered one more eBay win, the NASA photo of a form of shuttle on a Saturn V. That was it the umbrella stand was out and the Shuttle/Saturn came to life. New project but a cool one in mt mind's eye.

Looks like for the Karst-onian Kollection, 2014 will be the year of possibilities of past as we look forward to the projects of future to come.

posted 07-12-2014 10:27 AM               

On edit:

posted 07-13-2014 02:16 AM               

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Originally posted by GACspaceguy:
...the Shuttle/Saturn came to life.

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posted 07-13-2014 05:56 AM               

Pascal, at the base of the photo in the posting there is a picture of what NASA had in mind. It was not the final shuttle but was a version placed on the Saturn V.

posted 07-27-2014 04:12 PM            

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Originally posted by GACspaceguy:
It goes along with the Hello Kitty astronaut coloring book page she colored for me, that is on our refrigerator.

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posted 08-05-2014 05:11 PM               

Many cS'ers have had a part in developing this display, a great testimony to the cS community.

posted 08-06-2014 06:23 PM               

The X-15 was one of Gene's favorites and he had one hanging on his wall in his office in Burbank. Everyone who knew him wanted that model, and surprisingly he never offered to build or sell more.

The model is in the same scale as mine but there's a huge difference in the amount of detail and accuracy, but that's why my models are expensive, each one takes forever in terms of man hours and calender time.

There's a few other interesting models from Gene's collection, one is the 1/40th YB-49, Gene told me it was molded from the wooden wind tunnel model and you can see pics of that on his site. A 1/32nd B-2 and B-52 are also available.