Real space: Arianespace Vega

[Hobbes]

The Vega is a launcher for small satellites (up to 2.5 tons), developed for ESA. It's been used for 9 launches since 2012.

There's no kit, so I scratchbuilt this, using PVC stock for the body (milled on my lathe), and some 3D printed detail parts (main engine nozzle, separation rockets, thrusters and the payload fairing). Scale is 1/144, the model is 22 cm high.




The rocket body in production, I'd glued some styrene strip on (for the cable conduits), then had to remove those again to cut the channels at the top of each stage:



the finished product:






the logo on the fairing is for LISA Pathfinder, a test satellite (launched on flight VV06) for eLISA, a mission to measure gravitational waves. 

[Steel Penguin]

nice looking job.   
to get a good looking coherent white, and then line all the decal work up. good un

[PR19_Kit]

Awesome work Harro. 

I've not seen work like that done before.

[Captain Canada]

Great work, that's a very interesting piece !