Michael_C opened this issue on Nov 26, 2019 ยท 15 posts
Michael_C posted Tue, 26 November 2019 at 9:45 AM
There really was a race for the moon in the late 1960s. The Russians had a secret program to send a two-manned spacecraft combination to orbit the moon where one of the cosmonauts would land the LK (Lunniy korabl) and then return to rendezvous with the orbital spacecraft. The project was never realized because problems with the massive N1 booster were not solved before the Apollo 11 success.
This is the third in my series of real spacecraft. Except for the interior the mesh is finished. I still need to finish rigging the Poser figure and create the materials. Here are a couple of Poser toon renders.
jennblake posted Tue, 26 November 2019 at 11:10 AM
what detail! Looking good!
Michael_C posted Mon, 02 December 2019 at 5:24 PM
Rigging complete. Some progress on cabin instruments:
jennblake posted Mon, 02 December 2019 at 9:25 PM
Fabulous work! 
Michael_C posted Thu, 05 December 2019 at 5:48 PM
The interior is complete. Now, the big job of texturing.
Michael_C posted Tue, 10 December 2019 at 5:41 PM
Michael_C posted Sat, 14 December 2019 at 4:30 PM
A couple more partially textured views of the ascent stage:
Michael_C posted Fri, 20 December 2019 at 4:20 PM
Here's a view of the landing stage:
Michael_C posted Wed, 25 December 2019 at 10:16 AM
Nearly finished. Just some clean-up needed:
ghostman posted Thu, 26 December 2019 at 2:20 AM
Really nice work. :)
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Michael_C posted Thu, 26 December 2019 at 8:15 AM
The figure is essentially finished. Now on to the packaging and images for the market.
Here's a view of the interior:
Michael_C posted Sun, 29 December 2019 at 11:45 AM
I've submitted the Russian LK Manned Lunar Lander to the Marketplace. Here's one of my test renders using a DAZ lunar moonscape:
ghostman posted Sun, 29 December 2019 at 1:55 PM
Looking great. :) No seat for the astronaut though. Is he standing the whole way to the moon?
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Michael_C posted Sun, 29 December 2019 at 3:09 PM
The LK lander like the Apollo LM, which was similarly cramped with similar arrangements and carried two astronauts, was used only to descend to and return from the moon. Photos of one mock-up show a sort of bench, but those of engineering versions do not. The LK lander was accompanied to the moon by the Soyuz 7-LOK, which was equivalent to the Apollo Command/Service Module and had more room as well as couches for two cosmonauts. Of course during most of the flight the cosmonauts would be weightless.
Michael_C posted Tue, 31 December 2019 at 8:38 AM
The LK is now available in the Marketplace: There is also an associated freebie of the Soyuz 7K-LOK Lunar Orbital Spacecraft, mentioned above, released under and compliant with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, based on the original mesh created by Fac-tory-o, available as a STL file in the Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the same license.
