Request HUGE Buran and RKK Energia 3D Model Find

[Scruce]

Stumbled upon them today, highly detailed models.

http://www.buran.ru/htm/3d-model.htm

Only a few of the many models:

• Buran Shuttle (Tons of variants)
• Polyus
• Energia-M (Tons of variants)
• Energia 2
• Vulkan Booster
• X-20
• Soyuz
• Energia moving platform
• Antonov AN-225
• T-4 reconnaissance aircraft

Any takers on a Buran shuttle? :thumbup:

If you get a password request when extracting, the password should be "energy".

 

[Interceptor]

Wow! Scruce awesome Find:jawdrops:Thankyou.:jawdrops:

 

[IronRain]

I'm very interested in Polyus!

The model of Buran doesn't seem to be very accurate. 3 SSME-like engines and engines on the sides?

 

[Jarvitä]

I'm very interested in Polyus!

The model of Buran doesn't seem to be very accurat. 3 SSME-like engines and engines on the sides?

Also, no engines on the Energia core stage. Looks like a re-textured STS to me.

 

[Scruce]

I'm very interested in Polyus!

Me too, I had thought about meshing it.

The model of Buran doesn't seem to be very accurat. 3 SSME-like engines and engines on the sides?

I think that's a variant of the Buran. There are many of them on the page.

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Also, no engines on the Energia core stage. Looks like a re-textured STS to me.

No, look on the page, the picture is a Buran VARIANT.

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This is the real Buran model:

 

[N_Molson]

Wow. Really impressive !

 

[diogom]

Awesome find!!

 

[Scruce]

The Energia train on the webpage is made by Yuri Kulchitsky, small world isn't it!

 

[T.Neo]

Why are the engines on the Buran and not on the core stage? Why!?

It just looks so odd! :lol:

(Also, some of the "engined Burans" shown there, look quite STS-like... the front end looks much more like STS than Buran).

 

[4throck]

Can we reuse /redistribute / change the meshes for Orbiter ? Not clear about the copyright the status.

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Why are the engines on the Buran and not on the core stage?

The aero-tester version has jet engines so that it can take off from a normal runway. It is accurate.

The orbital version has maneuvering engines like this:

 

[Scruce]

Can we reuse /redistribute / change the meshes for Orbiter ?

Unknown, but you can E-mail the webmaster at [email protected]

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On another note, if you're having trouble discerning what types of variants are shown, a pictoral explanation is here:

http://www.buran.ru/htm/family.htm

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To sum up, www.buran.ru is a great site to use in future reference, it is available in both English and Russian format but I would go for the Russian website because it is better in terms of content.

http://www.buran.ru/htm/homepage.htm

 

[T.Neo]

The aero-tester version has jet engines so that it can take off from a normal runway.

I'm not talking about the aerotester at all. I hope I should know the difference between a rocket engine and a jet engine! :lol:

 

[Fabri91]

That is only one of the variants of which there is a model of, and apparently one that was being considered back in the day. There's also a model of the Buran (and Energia) as we know it.

 

[Scruce]

Actually, people should forget I mentioned this thread for one reason: It's already been done: [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1809"]CCCPCOMBI[/ame]

This only works in Orbiter 2006.

Test Buran:

CCCP Mmu and Polyus ASAT:

Buran and Antonov An-225:

Polyus and MAKS Shuttle:

MAKS Shuttle with its ET:

Buran on orbit:

Buran and Energia:

All of what you've seen is in this pack, no other downloads required.

 

[Hlynkacg]

That Page is a brilliant find, thank you.