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That might work nicely. I don't think I need anything detailed. It might derail me from the requirements of the story which are already complex. I've got three different cultural/technological systems which are largely incompatible. The docking structure represents the system used by the bad...

That is so cool! :-) :-) For gantry cranes, it looks like a crane could rotate between the four ships docked on the same whorl. To move from one whorl to the next, the crane would move along the axis. Maybe there should be a ring around each whorl so that multiple ships could dock on each whorl...

Scaling up to make an 8 inch globe. It's interesting that it can't be simply increased by 371 percent. The base now looks too big and the structure needs more layers to be stiff enough. Keying parts together doesn't seem as important. Uh the work space has gotten very messy. I should probably...

Here are the models on my hat while I ski. That's the real moon in the background.

Here's the latest build. This is before the map skin. With the map skin. Lit up.

I'm downloading icosahedral maps as jpgs. There's a site which comes up as planetary icosahedrons. I use Photoshop to adjust contrast and color and to remove excess stuff such as tabs and labels. In Coreldraw I've laid out the 20 triangles of an icosahedron in the correct size. I used the...

I found a use for the model. I coach kids cross-country skiing in the evening. In Anchorage, we have lighted ski trails. It helps kids find their coach if the coach wears a distinctive hat with lights. My hat is a sort of Jesters hat with three points. The balloon lights which I ordered came...

Thanks. Good thing I didn't see that before I started. I might have gone with the templates on the site instead of designing my own.

I haven't figured out the cross-section. I might have to set this project aside for awhile. Drat! I've got it as fifth priority in my project queue. Thank you for the info on LeGrange points. I might slip it into the story. Here's the opening paragraph of the story with the first description of...

Here are pages from my sketchbook. I was at a boring presentation so I started drawing floor plans as well. I like sticking an icosahedron out on the end of the docking structure just because it looks like a virus casing and because I like icosahedrons.

Revell-fan, I don't recall that about Voyager. The repair of this station will be semi-organic. I think the programming will be hexadecimal since DNA is coded as base four and the carbon used to make polymers has four electrons in the valance level. The docking structure added later has decimal...

I'm in the sketching on a napkin phase of things. The station has a sophisticated AI system for keeping it positioned. This is essential to the plot. A Legrange point might make sense but I think mentioning it would be outside of the concerns of the plot. Since there isn't gravity the fatique...

Thanks. I describe the structure as having gantry cranes to move the containers. I have difficulty visualizing proportions because the station is so big. Maybe there should be some girders to support the branches. I might think of them as resembling radio towers. The station isn't all that...

I'm halfway through drafting a science fiction novel called Lockbolt Station, and I'm thinking about the design of the station. I'll probably model it as some point, and it will appear in drawing/painting on the cover of the book. With the Firefly series I liked how the set design/spaceship...

Nice link. I like the idea of putting lights on a spaceship or space station. I've got a space station in mind next but it might be months before I get to it.

Looks like one more build to go on the model of the moon. I must be loony. I want to do one without the light and with a smoother surface. I get board after I get things figured out so it's tough doing the last build. Then I get to scale up to 8 inches. After that I write directions and make...

I've been using a small flashlight to light my card models from the inside but I just ordered these. They're balloon lights and come in a pack of twelve. Does anyone else have experience with incorporating LEDs in card models...

I've got it down so I can build one of these in under a day. I'm still working on it. I've arranged the parts on the page so that they can be scored faster. With this one, I left out a set a stringers and also modified the jpg map so it's blue. I'm going to try it completely without stingers...

I've subscribed to CorelDraw. Looks like 10.

I was traveling over Christmas and failed to sync my files to the cloud so work came to a standstill. I'm back. Here's the moon model with the stringers. I put the map on using poster putty. This lets me move things around and I can remove the map if I want. The surface image is an...