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The title of my blog refers to items I've been 3D modelling this week and last week. The first two are for clients, but the last one...hehehe...it's for meeeeh!!!

I was able to model a North Korean Taepodong-1 IRBM/Satellite Launch Vehicle in 3D Studio MAX to model the 3 stages, but didn't make any payload/satellite, and just pretended that the 3rd stage is a nuclear warhead! After modelling it, I used a program that converts 3DS mesh files into mesh files usable in Orbiter, a space flight simulator: Orbiter - A free space flight simulator

I used these images (from Astronautix.com) as reference for the Taepodong-1:
Taepodong

Looks like I managed to make a decent enough model...what do you think? I was curious to see how big it was, and to my surprise, it's quite small diay, smaller even than a Redstone.

You can see from this image how small it is, just over 30 meters tall. I put the astronaut there for size comparison.


I also placed the Space Shuttle Atlantis beside it so you can see how small it is.


I wrote a a guidance program for it so I don't have to manually fly it. So yes, the great thing about this is, it's not only a model, it's a PHYSICAL MODEL!!! And I can actually fly it, with precise parameters from the real Taeopodong-1 rocket!!! How cool is that

Here's launch! Hahaha yep, toasted astronaut...I guess it damaged the shuttle too.


40 seconds after launch, the pitchover starts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...orbiter/t5.jpg

Nice pitch of about 50 degrees...preparing for 1st stage burnout and separation.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...orbiter/t6.jpg

1st stage separation (yep I tracked the 1st stage and it fell on Russian soil...thus if the launch azimuth was about 080 etc, then the 1st stage has the potential to fall on Japanese soil)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...orbiter/t7.jpg

Following the 2nd/3rd stage stack...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...orbiter/t8.jpg

My preprogrammed azimuth of 043 will let me pass over the west coast of the US... sinister smile.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...orbiter/t9.jpg

2nd stage burnout and 3rd stage ignition...achieved orbit about 30 seconds after this screenshot.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rbiter/t10.jpg

I tried to deburn after passing Alaska, but I overshot the US west coast and ended up falling into Baja California (Mexican territory)...

...looks like I'm now at war with the Mehikanos!!! Andale andale AYEPAYEPA AIIIEEEEEE!!

-RODION