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Topic: Karst-onian Kollection: "A Place for Space"
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1565
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 08-07-2014 06:33 AM
   
Looks great Fred. I have also that pieces hardware Equipment (GSE), a desiccator, only my LM and Apollo SM CM are still waiting on a renovation. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-07-2014 07:15 AM
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Originally posted by Retro Rocket:
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.
Understand the detail driving the price up. That is what I love about this model, it has contractor model detail, very little and that keeps it in the price range where I feel good to spend on it. |
Retro Rocket
Member Posts: 484
From: Santa Paula, Ca,. USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 08-07-2014 11:45 AM
Good deal? Great deal! One of Gene's sold at Bonham's for $7k! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-29-2014 08:18 PM
We have added another fine contractors model to the Kollection. It is the AMU by LTV. It is about a 1/6 scale and the detail is typical for this type of model. (Not the detail of the model Pascal built for Robert).
This is the model that Mach9 posted about here. 
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David Carey
Member Posts: 1051
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Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 08-29-2014 11:39 PM
Perfect! A fine/fitting addition. |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 891
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-30-2014 07:09 AM
Another great addition Fred. I may be in Savannah later this month, count on getting a visitor. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-30-2014 11:14 AM
Great Joel. I can show you our Mercury Capsule desk lamp too! (Just finished it). |
Retro Rocket
Member Posts: 484
From: Santa Paula, Ca,. USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 08-30-2014 02:00 PM
It looks like you have one of the X-43A models I built for NASA, I cast them in white, painted them black then hand drilled the panel holes. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-30-2014 02:32 PM
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Originally posted by Retro Rocket:
It looks like you have one of the X-43A models I built for NASA
Yes, I bought it directly from you a few years ago. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 09-13-2014 12:08 PM
A few weeks ago, I was spending some time with our top structural/composite engineer and we started talking about our 30-year employment together. In that I mentioned that I had planned on being at Gulfstream for a few years, then onto NASA, and that life consumed that plan. It was then when he said that was were he started his engineering career in Huntsville on Skylab!
He worked the orbital tracks in the last few years in the control room at Marshall Space Flight Center with the team that was trying to keep Skylab alive waiting on the shuttle and the opportunity to boost the orbit of Skylab. How amazing it was to me that in the 30 years we have interacted we had never had this conversation before. He described in great detail on how the communicated with the Skylab and how they were able to get it orientated such that the solar panels could pick up some energy at the same time minimizing the the drag on the vehicle. He also went on to talk about the day that they knew Skylab was coming in, as he was right there in the control room through it all. It was fantastic!
With that, I took him on a virtual tour of the Karst-oinian Kollection. He then offered, and I accepted his badge from that time frame, as well as the section of test panel for Skylab's solar panel that is pictured below. It is now on display in the Skylab curio right beside the 1/48 flight version Carlos Santos scratch built for us and just above the MSFC Skylab model. (Hey, it could have been the one they had in the control room that day, who knows.)
I am still amazed that it took 30 years to have that conversation but so very grateful that we have this piece of Skylab history in the Kollection!  
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-09-2014 03:00 PM
In case anyone was wondering, yes the Kollection spills over to the office. I have given a number of tours in the work place. Most people enjoy the shuttle tile and the flown Cold Plate sample that was flown in Spacelab on Columbia. Below is the new addition, a holder for my iPhone that says it all. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-11-2014 07:06 PM
Michael Key's 3D printed lunar rock hammer arrived very well packaged and thus safe and sound. You would be a amazed on how some folks ship items, this was bulletproof. Pictures do this no justice at all, I am totally amazed at the ablity of those who do models out there, hats off to you all.
So I walked around and tried to figure out where can I display this wonderful creation. As I walked down the hall I saw it, Alan Bean's art "The Hammer and Feather." THAT WAS IT!!!! Two great pieces of art together, perfect. A little rearrangement and there it is. See the attached phots of the displays.
Jackie had a great addition though, anyone of know where to get a real Falcon feather?   
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Jerry Brouillette
Member Posts: 156
From: Louviers, CO
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 10-11-2014 10:57 PM
Great display idea!! Checkout a raptor rescue place for a feather maybe? You have some nice stuff, by the way. |
keymichael1855
Member Posts: 182
From: Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 10-12-2014 05:58 PM
Fred, I'm so glad that the hammer arrived safe and sound, and thanks for the nice words. It looks great, and I'm honored to have one of my pieces displayed alongside Alan Bean's beautiful painting. I'm glad to have another one of my printed models in your "Kollection." Thanks for the pics and for sharing!(I have a lot of 3D printed items, but no Falcon feathers yet!) |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-28-2014 10:17 AM
While I was away at NBAA in Orlando last week, Jackie completed and placed a new model in our display of the AMU. I am a blessed man.  
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SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 1399
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 10-28-2014 11:56 AM
Cool! You have a Neat collection! |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1565
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 10-28-2014 11:56 AM
Very nice done!!!! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 10-28-2014 02:30 PM
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Originally posted by apolloprojeckt:
Very nice done!!!!
Thanks Pascal, coming from you that will please her tremendously. The big struggle for me is the face plate. It is held in place with a small drop of water soluble glue. Jackie asked about painting it gold but I hate to cover up the face detail. So right now it is clear while I decide for sure. At the NBAA conference there ere a number of plating suppliers and I spoke to them about gold plating such a small piece of plastic. No one wanted to touch it, so I guess the folks on your part of the world, Pascal, have a unique technique for model parts. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-13-2014 09:36 PM
We picked up a very interesting model and have placed it in the living room for best viewing for us. It was the McDonnell Douglas concept of a fully fly-back shuttle. If you have been to the Atlantis display at Kennedy Space Center you will see it depicted on one of the screens in the pre-entry room showing the flight profile.  
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1565
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 11-14-2014 06:43 AM
Nice! Early concept of the shuttle, looks a kind on the virgin concept. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-24-2014 07:15 PM
Yesterday, we watched the launch of Soyuz TMA-15M and with Olaf on board my wife felt that he belongs in the Kollection as well. While she was out today she found an Olaf and there he is sitting with the Soyuz we have on display! 
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-08-2014 07:37 AM
While outside this past weekend building a fence, Jackie was putting up Christmas decorations. The glass astronaut and the space shuttle made the tree again this year. What was really cool is what she did with the Hallmark space collection. It now adorns the top of the patio door surround just above the LM plaque display. Turn on the tree and it all lights up including the lift off announcement of Alan Shepard's Mercury flight.  
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Tomy1
Member Posts: 188
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-08-2014 09:24 AM
Gary - great collection, especially the cases you are using. Do you have the name of the manufacturer of the cabinets you posted pictures of on 08-29-14 8:18 and 11-13-14 9:36? Thanks. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-08-2014 03:41 PM
The 8/29 case is three of the Ikea cases that have been discussed on other threads on cS. The other is a Philip Reinisch Lighthouse 8-Shelf Concave Bunching Curio Cabinet. That would be out of production now. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-31-2014 08:45 AM
I saw this hand sanitizer dispenser (see the first photo) in our customer lounge area and to me it begged a modification only a spaceflight enthusiast would see. A few days of vacation and re-purposing an old Revell kit I built when it was first released back in the 1970s and it has been transformed into a new space item for my desk.  
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1565
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 12-31-2014 09:20 AM
That looks great. That is extremely creative. |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 891
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-31-2014 11:55 AM
Nicely done as usual Fred. Happy New Year.
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-06-2015 05:35 AM
Happy New Year to all! I put the astronaut on a lunar landscape left over from a LM model and added a little plaque to the display as well. The plaque reads: ONE SMALL PUMP FOR (WO)MAN,
MAY STOP ONE GIANT EPIDEMIC FOR MANKIND |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-19-2015 10:56 AM
Found some wooden wheels at Lowes and decided it was time to copy the build of the LRV demonstration on display in Huntsville at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It really shows how the LRV folds well. 
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Ronpur
Member Posts: 1260
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 01-19-2015 08:31 PM
Oh, that is great! I really want plans for that to make my own. |
keymichael1855
Member Posts: 182
From: Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 01-20-2015 07:04 AM
Very cool little model Fred! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-20-2015 07:37 AM
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Originally posted by Ronpur:
Oh, that is great! I really want plans for that to make my own.
Build info and photos sent. If anyone else wants it launch me an e-mail. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2143
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 01-20-2015 08:20 AM
Beautiful and unique work Fred! |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1799
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 01-20-2015 10:40 AM
Great work Fred. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 764
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 01-20-2015 02:13 PM
I like it. A lot! Nice work. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-08-2015 04:09 PM
I wanted to give a shout out to Michael Key and his help with this project shown below. I picked up a Hyatt CSM/LES/SLA model a while back but it did not have the tower or the nozzles for the LES. I contacted Michael and together we came up with the the idea to turn it into the model that is shown in the photo of the Apollo 10 crew. Michael drafted up the the tower, nozzles and the SLA based on his model then had the parts produced in 3D resin. As an added bonus to me when he shipped he painted up the SLA and created a replica base for the project. It sat for a while here at the house and finally this weekend I finished it up (with some painting tips from Michael as well). It turned out great and is now displayed with our 1/12 scale CSM and LM. There will be more to come as I have some other parts from Michael as well.  
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keymichael1855
Member Posts: 182
From: Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 03-16-2015 08:05 PM
Looks awesome Fred! I was glad to provide the missing parts to bring that model back to life. It's one of my favorites — I own a few of them! I had never seen the Hyatt displayed as it was in that photo, so it was cool to be able to replicate it for you. If anyone ever needs any replacement parts for this model, please let me know as I have most of them produced. Thanks! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3121
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-22-2015 12:33 PM
Donnis (Willis of Lunar Legacies) got us in contact with the fellow who had a LC-37/Saturn IB launch complex in his last auction. It needed some TLC, so when were at the EFT-1 launch we made the deal and brought it home. I completed a clean up and repairs, as well as making a custom flame diverted for it. Looks like back in its day they looked into some extra power for the Saturn IB (maybe for a Earth rendezvous scenario using multiple Saturn IB/minuteman augmented launches?). Also added are the era vehicles to show the scale, which is about 1/24. In behind the launch pad you see a 1/50 scale SCA, a 1/48 MSFC Skylab model in original box and the day glow orange container is a shipping container for the actual airlock experiment that flew on Skylab that I picked up from the Principal Investigator for that experiment. We have been blessed greatly in our additions.  
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1565
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 03-22-2015 01:03 PM
Great!!! And big. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 5407
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-22-2015 02:55 PM
WoW!!!!! |
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