@RenxBlake This is modern Oahu, not 1941 Oahu. You can tell easily, since the Honolulu airport "reef runway" is visible off shore and it wasn't constructed until the late 1970's.
@MrTyTheGreat I made the spaceship with its solar panel mechanism first of all, just to see if I could mimic the way they fold on the real thing. Later on during that coffee-fueled building binge, when I suddenly realized that I had built myself a huge rocket to go with it, I made some half-arsed attempt to "pre-fold" them, but realized it would take ages to get it just right so I dropped that for the time being.
As for the pad, well, it's a "simple Soyuz" and I wanted to keep the part count to a bare minimum while still keeping the essence of the Soyuz pad (rocket is held floating by four clamps, color scheme from the Kourou pad etc), I have a pretty slow computer and again, all of this was just made for myself in coffee-soaked boredom, I didn't intend to publish it at first.
If I make an updated "scale model" (ie not "simple") version for publishing later, I will make a more realistic pad, pre-fold the solar arrays (if I can), add heaps more detail and tweak some other things here and there for realism (some proportions etc)
@WaspWaspWasp It's a known issue with these rocket contraptions that use the stock missiles for propulsion. They're very unstable and it seems like the game version has a huge effect on whether it'll work or not, as does the physics level setting in-game, presumably because the developers are constantly tweaking the physics and behavior of game objects. Several missile-powered designs I made in 1.6 just blow up instantaneously in 1.7, for instance.
But this particular model works fine for me at least (in v1.7.0.6, Windows, physics set to low), I test-flew it dozens of times before hitting the submit button. It only blows up if I manhandle it, which is to be expected.
@RenxBlake This is modern Oahu, not 1941 Oahu. You can tell easily, since the Honolulu airport "reef runway" is visible off shore and it wasn't constructed until the late 1970's.
+1By the way, thanks ya'll for the kind words!
@MrTyTheGreat I made the spaceship with its solar panel mechanism first of all, just to see if I could mimic the way they fold on the real thing. Later on during that coffee-fueled building binge, when I suddenly realized that I had built myself a huge rocket to go with it, I made some half-arsed attempt to "pre-fold" them, but realized it would take ages to get it just right so I dropped that for the time being.
As for the pad, well, it's a "simple Soyuz" and I wanted to keep the part count to a bare minimum while still keeping the essence of the Soyuz pad (rocket is held floating by four clamps, color scheme from the Kourou pad etc), I have a pretty slow computer and again, all of this was just made for myself in coffee-soaked boredom, I didn't intend to publish it at first.
If I make an updated "scale model" (ie not "simple") version for publishing later, I will make a more realistic pad, pre-fold the solar arrays (if I can), add heaps more detail and tweak some other things here and there for realism (some proportions etc)
@WaspWaspWasp It's a known issue with these rocket contraptions that use the stock missiles for propulsion. They're very unstable and it seems like the game version has a huge effect on whether it'll work or not, as does the physics level setting in-game, presumably because the developers are constantly tweaking the physics and behavior of game objects. Several missile-powered designs I made in 1.6 just blow up instantaneously in 1.7, for instance.
But this particular model works fine for me at least (in v1.7.0.6, Windows, physics set to low), I test-flew it dozens of times before hitting the submit button. It only blows up if I manhandle it, which is to be expected.