#preliminary design

[lonestarflight]

Cancelled Missions: Gemini Saturn V

-Concept Art, however this has a typo, as this is clearly the Saturn V.

"American manned lunar orbiter. In l LP late 1964 McDonnell, in addition to a Saturn IB-boosted circumlunar Gemini, McDonnell proposed a lunar-orbit version of Gemini to comprehensively scout the Apollo landing zones prior to the first Apollo missions.

Status: Design 1964. Gross mass: 11,182 kg (24,652 lb).

The lunar orbit version required an Agena stage to provide the delta-V for lunar orbit insertion and trans earth injection. The 1.52 m-diameter Agena was enclosed in an inverted conical fairing to both transmit thrust loads to the Gemini and provide thermal protection during the coast to the moon.

Alternatively, a propulsion module based on a repackaged Apollo Service Module propulsion system, as had been proposed two years earlier for a lunar-landing version of Gemini, could be used. This raised the translunar injection mass of the spacecraft to 11,182 kg, well above the capability of a Saturn IB or Titan III-C, but only a quarter that of a Saturn V. The launch vehicle was unspecified, but could only have been a Saturn V used on an early test mission. The mission profile would have involved a 68 hour flight from low earth orbit to lunar orbit, a 24 hour lunar mapping mission in a 10 nm x 80 nm lunar orbit, and a 68 hour return flight. The scientific equipment would consist of a modest camera array installed in the nose of the spacecraft. This consisted of a long focal-length telescope, to which were attached two narrow-field stereo mapping cameras, a wide field mapping camera, a panoramic camera, and two 16 mm film cameras. The film was not accessible by the astronauts, being stored in a film vault shielded against radiation in the nose of the spacecraft. The camera compartment would protrude from the stub nose of the Gemini after parachute deployment.

The manned portion was the same as the circumlunar version, a modified earth-orbit Gemini. The aft modules would be retained, but with the retrorockets removed. The retro module space would be used to install Apollo-type lunar distance communications, navigation, and test equipment. Deployable DSIF omni-directional and parabolic antennae would deploy from the aft modules to support lunar-distance communications. To handle re-entry from lunar distances, several modifications were necessary. The capsule's heat shield would be beefed up, and the Rene 41 corrugated shingles of Gemini's skin would be replaced with ablative shingles. The load of attitude control propellant for the capsule's reaction control system was substantially increased. Additional strap-down gyros and solar sensor packages would be added to provide navigation system redundancy. The ejection seats would be deleted and a Mercury-style launch escape tower added. The then-planned Rogallo wing recovery system would be used to glide to the Gemini to a runway landing on US territory after return from the moon. To handle the scientific payload, a camera compartment was added to the nose below the parachute/Rogallo wing housing. The Gemini spacecraft modified in this way had on on-orbit mass of 3955 kg as compared to the 3207 kg of the earth-orbit version.

Crew Size: 2. Habitable Volume: 2.55 m3."

-information from Astronautix.com: link

source, source, source

[lonestarbattleship]

Preliminary plans for battleship TEXAS's new home at Pier 21 in Galveston, Texas.

Note: "the T-shaped gangways in this artist's rendering, which would allow for two entrances onto and off the ship."

Photo from the Battleship Texas Foundation news letter.

Information from the Houston Chronicle: link

[asenith]

[bellflowermini]

dreamers discuss their shared fate

[acmeoop]

Martian Christmas Carols (1990s)

[garadinervi]

Ootje Oxenaar, Schetsontwerp voor postzegels Nederland 1992 Technische Universiteit Delft, 1991 [Postzegelontwerpen, postzegels en affiches, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag]

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #66 - Favorites Round

Some of my personal favorite characters because yes I am biased. Whoever gets the most votes will move onto the next wave.

[wankadoodles]

Newest bard is Carly "Fae" Jepsen!

Inspired by both The Loneliest Time and The Loveliest Time! PLEASE go listen to both these albums

[andstuffsketches]

hel-lore (see what i did there)

just wanted to ask what brush you used for your casscass comic because. Goddamn that lineart and colours. Yummy.

How’d you. Do you. What brushes. What pallets. What program.

Did you get pose from somewhere… references…

basically this is me asking how you made your art style so i can osmosis it hope you don’t mind, if you do, you can absolutely tell me to not steal your art style

okay have a nice (insert timezone specific term here)! drink water

Hello and a drink water yourself! I draw in Photoshop currently and I have downloaded Kyle T. Webster's free brush megapack. For pencils and sketching I use the "Ultimate Charcoal Pencil", and for inking I've been using the "Ultimate Inking Thick 'n Thin" :

I often shade with the default hard round pressure opacity brush. I recommend you try out a few different brushes and see what feels good!

Some tips on color: 1. you can help your palette look cohesive if you cover the drawing with a solid low-opactity "color" or "hue" layer. 2. don't draw in black on white. I recommend not using black "ink" at all, but if nothing else change your bg color to a gray 3. atmospheric perspective For posing characters, learning anatomy will help. Also, you can find stock poses online. I like the adorkastock website.

I developed my style by copying elements of other art styles I liked, and over time making them my own. Tracing or imitating art that you like can help you feel how that style works.

When I draw my own version of a character, I use shapes to emphasize certain features and keep them recognizable:

(I was influenced by elekilokal's incredible charcter designs)

and all that being said, practice is gonna help more than any one brush or tip. Good luck!

[lonestarflight]

Model of a proposed version of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (FVS) with an airframe modified by Grumman to use variable geometry wings.

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[lonestarbattleship]

Preliminary Design: 1918 Battleship (Scheme 2) aka South Dakota Class (1920)

This plan provided:

Main battery: twelve 16-inch/50-caliber guns in four triple turrets

Secondary battery: ten 5-inch guns

AA battery: four 3-inch high-power guns

Torpedoes: two 21-inch tubes

Main belt: 17 inches

Machinery: Turbo-electric drive

Top speed: 23 knots

Waterline length: 660 feet

Beam: 105 feet

Normal displacement: 41,500 tons

Draft: 32 feet 3 inches

"A preliminary design plan (Scheme 2) for a battleship to be funded in Fiscal Year 1918, sent on December 21, 1916 to the General Board. This design followed the Colorado (Battleship # 45) class in layout but incorporated triple 16-inch/50-caliber gun turrets in place of twin 16-inch/45-caliber turrets. A significant increase in length was necessary to incorporate desired characteristics. This design series was the origin of development of the South Dakota (Battleship # 49) class design. Scheme 2 differed from Scheme 1 (see Photo # S-584-104) in housing the 5-inch secondary battery in casemates rather than in turrets.

The original document was a blueprint (white on dark blue). The original plan is in the 1911-1925 Spring Styles Book. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph."

Date: December 11, 1916

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: S-584-105

[asenith]

I got hooked into Killing Floor 2. Now, I must create a character for it.

This is just the rough design. There will more details in the final design, I think.

[coconut530]

mARTch Day 4: Object w/ @dead-west-podcast ‘s lovely characters!

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Preliminary Match 46 - Hottest JoJo Character Bracket

[acmeoop]

Color Keys “The Ren & Stimpy Show” (1996)

[garadinervi]

Jan Sluijters, Drukproef voor de Kinderpostzegels Nederland 1928, H.A. Lorentz, October 1928 [Postzegelontwerpen, postzegels en affiches, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag]