I then drove about 20 kilometres away, turned up the air conditioner, and fell asleep. But somehow he drove right past and I got back onto the road and resumed riding.įinally, about 6 AM, I got back to the car. But I guess it was the weekend, and these guards might have a few vodkas, and I was thinking please, god, don’t run over my bike. I’m not sure if they were looking for me or what they were doing. I could see this guy coming down the road, careening right and then left, swerving into the desert and then back onto the road. Quickly I threw my bike to the ground and ran about 50 metres into the desert. Then all of a sudden I saw the lights of a jeep behind me. So I walked about eight kilometres back to my bike and started riding. I didn’t want to be there on Monday morning so I needed to reach the car by daybreak. After that all three backed off and I was alone again.īy this point it was dark and I had to get back. He was getting closer and closer, snapping at me, so I wacked him over the mouth and gave him a spray. And they were making a lot of noise and one of the dogs was getting close so I grabbed a steel pole and got out my pepper spray, which I’d brought specifically for dogs. And then I was just about to leave when these three big Czar German Shepherds showed up. So I crawled over and took some pictures. It’s the one with the big Energia rocket, about 400 metres away. But even the US orbiters seem to have some capability of being cleaned on the LRSI tiles and AFRSI blankets (although over time some permanent staining does seem to occur).After I spent the day taking photos I wanted to go see another hangar nearby. Who knows if the stuff did clean off as they could have replaced the most seriously damaged tiles. I heard rumors that the Buran had a burn through back there, although naturally the Soviets never let on about it. The tops of the elevons at least on the right side got a bit scorched as that one youtube video I linked too earlier on has a nice camera pass under the right side elevon and showing the very scorched appearance top-side (brown black). Not sure where the soot came from, though. The aft end was pretty nicely coated with soot, which was apparently easy to clean off. These means a significant amount of weathering (much more so than a US Shuttle). I am building the orbital version that flew in 1988 as it appeared immediately after landing. I built the Shuttle model in 2006, followed by two years of on-again off-again detailing and tiling. We probably came up with the idea independently. The assembly dried overnight, then I installed in fuselage and puttied. The black is due to the graphite pencil I used - graphite ensures the putty doesn't stick as I shape the nozzles. I stuck a sharpened pencil in each opening to creat a nozzle-like shape, being careful to address the direction for pitch. Instead, I sanded the hull pieces after aseembly, then more or less filled it with Milliput.
#Buran shuttle locations plus
The kit supplies three parts for this, plus a bunch of crappy plugs for the nozzles. You can also see that I installed the forward RCS pod. I then installed the assembly, puttied and sanded flush with fuselage. I detailed the cockpit hull section and inserted the windows, which are polished on the inside. Made a bit more progress during the week. The objective for the cockpit, since most of it won't be seen in detail, is to suggest controls and colors, and this seemed best handled by gluing a variety of photoetch spare cockpit details wherever it made aesthetic sense. I will then add RCS cones, boxes for the gears and assorted plastic parts before setting off to add the tiles in the same manner I did for the 1/72 Shuttle Discovery I built a while ago.
#Buran shuttle locations windows
The cockpit windows and overhead systems will be added in a week or so, then buttoned up, sealed and sanded flush with the hull. For instance, I did add the bulk of instruments along the centerline, something that is an evident departure from US shuttles, the latter of which to not have instrumentation cluttering this area. I have completed the cockpit, which is completely scratchbuilt and almost entirely conjecture, though I did use some reference photos like the ones above. However, the Soviet shuttle seems to have been almost entirely covered in rectangular tiles, though in some places, particularly around doors, panels and such, there are odd shaped tiles. shuttles, mostly located around compound curves, which is logical. There are many, many strangely-shaped tiles on the U.S.
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