Great looking design! Lots of details. Only one lande,r though? Going all that way and only ten get to land? Plus, wouldn't you want the redundancy of two? (or do the two ships provide that?)

cool designs, are these the secret plans..

Hey geirla, Actually there are two landers per ship --I knew I should have done a z +90 degree rotation on this one—that the image size is already pushing the limits and the over-compression would have been dreadful. However --My Bad. Check yesterday’s post for the three-quarters view where both landers are visable: Mission Saturn The landers are multi-mission, many descents and ascents, and capability for on-board re-fueling – also, the craft are capable of wide ranging travel within Saturn’s system of moons, so there are descent mission opportunities at several targets – that’s why I made them so large.

Its sparks the imitation

Fantastic modeling. Corrie

Really brilliant modelling. You and Bambam131 are the best I've seen. Only one small quibble: I should have thought a pressurized connectionway between the two crew habitats would be a good idea.

can i get a window seat?

Fantastic creation.

I love it!!!! Your presentation is amazing and the detail of the ship is excellent! Your images keep inspiring me to create new designs myself. I actually do have a lot of new images but since I am trying to sell my work I have to decide if I am to post an image here or on my website where I sell my work. Since I always like to give a big enough images to show all the detail it makes it a hard decision to either post here or not. Keep up the excellent work as you inspire many people here including myself with you images! All the best, David

Hello JohnRidgway, Thank you for your comment, and your question. Modeling at this level of detail I am sometimes forced to make choices about which details to include or omit -- I'm working at the very limits of Bryce in terms of file size -- I did consider a note to indicate an elevator system, and perhaps I need to amend the diagram to include this. In terms of design, the reasoning behind the choice of an elevator verses a connecting corridor is as follows. Under spin "Downward" is "outward" from the axis -- a connecting tube becomes a 100 plus foot deep open "shaft," one which must be constructed of collapsible segments in order to permit the habitats to extend and retract according to need -- which represents additional mass, but perhaps more importantly, represents a system of complex sliding interfaces which must remain pressure tight and function properly again and again -- a needless complexity. If the design is a flimsy tube of say, Mylar with expansion rings inflated by air pressure, then this represents a volume of material mass, which means weight, and even at Orion's level of energy output on a ten year mission all mass becomes critical in terms of the fuel load it consumes. The better (and less complex) solution is to dispense with the walls of the tube altogether and go to an elevator system -- which is what the various Orion documents indicate. A pressurized elevator car (and its counter weight) ride within the set of four open-box girders which connect the habitats.

stunning creation!!

I agree with the others, this is some spectacular modeling. It's fascinating the level of detail you're putting into these, and wonderful look at "what might have been" in the space program. Really nice work!

Brilliant! Are you going to do the Orion battleship?

Hi WPL2, Thanks for your comments -- in regards to the Orion Battleship, yes I likely will, in time, do a re-creation, I am considering the blue-prints currently.

simply stunning!