SpaceX Falcon 9 first landed orbital booster 1/87 scale (H0)

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<p>This a 1/87 scale model of the first landed orbital booster from SpaceX which landed on 21. december 2015.</p> <p>I was amazed by Twuelfing's model and how good it looked in his display so I decided to build it, too. I have many small cars in scale 1/87 (H0) so I decided to print it in this much smaller scale. Because I wasn't able to print all the details of the original model in my scale I decided to remix it and remodel the things that had to be modified for printing in 1/87. Twuelfing, I thank you very much for this awesome model, I am amazed of the work you put into it.</p> <p>I only uploaded my new parts. For the Octaweb (engines) and legs you can use the files provided by twuelfing and scale them in your slicer-software by 65.92%.</p> <p>EDIT: I was asked to upload all the files, so now there are parts, labeld "_scaled". These are twuelfings parts, scaled by 65.92%, so you can print them directly in 1/87-scale.</p> <h3> Interstage</h3> <p>I'm not quite sure about the length of the interstage. I think the original interstage is that of F9 v1.1 (block 2). Flight 20 (first landing) was the maiden flight of F9 v1.2 full thrust (block 3) where the interstage was longer.</p> <p>In 1/87-scale the interstage is now around 1cm longer than before.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falcon_9_Full_Thrust&amp;oldid=820766059">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falcon\_9\_Full\_Thrust&amp;oldid=820766059</a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches&amp;oldid=822382284">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List\_of\_Falcon\_9\_and\_Falcon\_Heavy\_launches&amp;oldid=822382284</a></p> <h3> Grid fins</h3> <p>I remodeled the aluminum grid fins of F9 flight 20 because I wasn't able to print them on my FDM-printer in my scale.</p> <p>The remodeled ones have a grid-width of exactly one extruded line when printing on a 0.4mm nozzle.</p> <h3> Leg cylinders</h3> <p>I printed the hydraulic cylinders that move the landing legs instead of making them from metal. It's a bit more fragile but because of the smaller scale of 1/87 it works, as long as you don't push hard against the rocket.</p> <p>The 2mm and 3mm parts were printed lying and sanded afterwards to get them round.</p> <p>I addeed a tool to glue the single parts together coaxially. Simply lay the parts onto the tool and push together the single pieces using glue between them.</p> <h3> Main corpus</h3> <p>For the rocket body I used a piece of PVC-pipe used to fix cables under the ceiling. The diameter is 40mm what fits 1/87 quite nicely. The length of the PVC-pipe is 441mm.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bauhaus.info/kabelschutzrohre/stangenrohr/p/22828668">https://www.bauhaus.info/kabelschutzrohre/stangenrohr/p/22828668</a></p> <p>adapteroctaweb is the thing you can glue into the pipe to attatch interstage and octaweb.</p> Category: Vehicles