Pathfinder Model, I went a bit over thet top |
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Pathfinder Model, I went a bit over thet top |
 May 26 2004, 12:35 PM
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Founder  Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1  |
I have the Hotwheel Pathfinder model - and bored one lunchtime, I thought it needed some work. The heatshield is white plastic - but I knew that was wrong - so I went in to the kitchen and...
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May 26 2004, 01:21 PM
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I made a model of Pathfinder shortly after it landed, it's nearly 7 years old now and a bit dusty. I made it based on pictures of the lander in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now magazines.
Did anyone see that smaller model they had of the MER rovers at a few of the early press briefings? Would love one of those   
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May 26 2004, 01:50 PM
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That's very cute - I have Pathfinder blueprints on my wall ( ebay ) and I made a Card Delta II rocket a while back -
 And of course, there's the rest of the pathfinder toy stuff - which is always a bit of fun I think the scale might be a bit off though  Piccies... |
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May 26 2004, 02:59 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
 Oh crap - I should never have started doing this Doug |
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May 26 2004, 03:23 PM
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COOL lol
Found some paper models here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/scalemodels/ and here, some of the links mightnot work now though http://www.freepapertoys.com/pt-space.html |
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Jun 3 2004, 10:40 PM
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Here's a newsday article and some diagrams how to build models of the rovers:
http://www.newsday.com/news/education/sbp/...y-sbp-headlines |
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Oct 27 2005, 05:06 PM
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Superb self-made models if You ask me ...
Code 3 model offered a superb MER model at the end of 2003, but those are soldout nowadays! Realspace models has a superb Viking Orbiter & Lander scale model at US $ 150.00: http://www.realspacemodels.com/cgi-bin/che...ENEXT40:50:10++ Best regards, Philip 
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Oct 27 2005, 05:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (djellison @ May 26 2004, 09:59 AM) Oh crap - I should never have started doing this Doug  I'm having Gumby flashbacks! The images got me thinking: Would it be useful and practical to drop a whole bunch of little rovers all over Mars? Rather than pray in the future that a few big huge ones make it and work? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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