“Redemption Through Re-Entry” a ceramic sculpture I made a year ago commemorating IFT-10 (ft. NSF patch for the mission)

The sculpture contains a model of Ship 37 that can be removed from the re-entry flames, a small island that hides the connection between the stand and the base, a sign stating the sculpture’s name, with the “RE-ENTRY” part able to glow under a UV light, and the back of the base is inspired by the hot-stage ring of the Super Heavy booster, which doubled as large venting holes during the kiln fire.

The sculpture is displayed alongside a patch of the mission, which I got from the NASASpaceflight store.

The base was built with a slab-construction method, whereas the stand and ship were made by a regular hand-sculpting technique. Both the ship and the stand are made from kiln-fired clay, and made separately.

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 15 days ago
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This pattern just appeared on my couch backrest cushion.

I have young kids, but they swear they didn't do it. The material is like a rougher fabric. Couch from urban barn. it's like a decade old.

What could possibly cause this pattern to appear? It doesn't wipe off with paper towel and warm water. That's what the dark damp spot is.

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 1 month ago
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Last night of the event and I FINALLY got her

Ever since I first heard about her being included in Azur Lane, I was super excited to get her because I had met someone at an IHOP once who actually served aboard this ship in Vietnam.

And now I have her, and I’m super happy about it!

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 2 months ago
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One reason I like the translation tool, it cleans up your wings!

When building complex multi-part wings, it’s a great tool. Unless you use Procedural Wings, which, y’know, is fine too.

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 2 months ago

Have you ever tried to design an entire craft around a specific part?

This is the Alvaron IX-42 Harkon, a loyal wingman drone built around the OPT Legacy engine part, the J-81 Turbojet. I chose this part because it looked perfect for a drone body and is an engine and intake all in one piece.

The part is surface-attach only, so you may be wondering how I got it to be the root part of the craft. I did this through a rather sophisticated technique I've mastered called LYING. The engine part is actually a masquerade that hides the real fuselage and root section, a hodgepodge of 0.625m parts (drone core, battery, reaction wheels, a scaled-down FL-T800 fuel tank, and an SAS unit) that everything is actually attached to. There is also a hidden Oscar-B fuel tank that the VTOL engines, a quad of Twitch engines, are mounted to.

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 2 months ago

And just like that, I've lost all hope of ever making robotic arms for space stations.

Tried to relocate my Canadarm2 recreation to add a Z1 Truss to my Micro ISS for the 5th time, but no matter what I do to fix the issue with relocation, the arm always bugs out and becomes essentially useless. It breaks after timewarping, it breaks when I leave the station and go somewhere else, and it breaks when I go up to it to add a new module. Even quicksaving and quickloading post-relocation still breaks it. The arm is essentially still attached to the station, but it has been disconnected from the grabber end the physics says it's supposed to be connected to.

I give up. I'll just use probes to put the modules in place from now on.

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 3 months ago

A Tachyon edit of the nuclear reactor copypasta

“Reminds me of my first tour of a nuclear reactor I trained in at Tracen Academy.”

“We walked on the bridge over the reactor, I looked down, then immediately crouched and hooked my arms under the railing.”

“The tour guide chuckled and asked if I was scared I would fall in. I said yes…
Like a liar.”

“Because in that blue glow of the reactor, I saw beauty like none have ever seen. I yearned for the blue glow. The longing was a screeching madness, wailing as it clawed at the walls of my mind. Commanding me to leap over the railing and bask in the radiance of the sapphire waters. I was certain that if I hadn’t crouched down, hadn't abandoned the smiling faces of the 3 goddesses, my body would have pitched me over the railing before my mind could choose…”

“Months later, I had noticed several posters with closeup pictures of the reactor. I awkwardly asked Tazuna if they sent in divers to take pictures of it. She gave me a knowing look and said I’d die by the time I got halfway to the reactor. I thanked her and scurried away.”

“The light still calls to me. It was the uma equivalent of a bug zapper.”

Cafe: “Tachyon, what the f——“

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 3 months ago

New “The incident” just dropped

We’ve had the armpit incident, that one was just weird, the PETA incident, which was downright disturbing, but this El R34 overrun incident… this is a new low for the Umamusume community and people who have genuine respect for the horses, El Condor Pasa included.

Genuinely how the fuck were the events that led to this allowed to take place…

u/Airwolfhelicopter — 3 months ago