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                        In-progress model quiz!

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                        Matthew Usher
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                          April 2003
                        • From: USA
                        In-progress model quiz!
                        Posted by Matthew Usher on Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:30 AM
                        Granted, this one should be pretty easy.

                        What am I scratchbuilding?



                        Matt @ FSM
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                        Yann Solo
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                          March 2006
                        • From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
                        Posted by Yann Solo on Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:35 AM

                        Ummmmh!  Let me see ........ This is the Atlantis space shuttle.   No no no, wait ........ the hydrogen ball that goes on Ariane rocket!

                        Seriously, this is the sputnik but you should ask us to guess what scale it is!

                        No matter where you go ....... there you are.
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                        Matthew Usher
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                        Posted by Matthew Usher on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:07 AM
                        Nice job, Yann!

                        Technically it's Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. It's a little smaller than half scale.

                        Matt
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                        mhvink
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                          June 2004
                        • From: Central Cal
                        Posted by mhvink on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:16 AM
                        Is this for the woman who was asking for a model for a documentary being filmed?
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                        Yann Solo
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                        • From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
                        Posted by Yann Solo on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:16 AM
                        Interesting.  I thought it was a lot bigger.  It's coming along nicely.  Keep posting.
                        No matter where you go ....... there you are.
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                        Matthew Usher
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                        Posted by Matthew Usher on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:38 AM
                        It is for a documentary. I had to scale it to the final dimensions the production company wanted. It almost would have been easier to build a full-size replica -- the real thing was only about 60cm in diameter.

                        It's gotta go in a FedEx box on Friday (tomorrow!) so I'll have some shots of the finished model shortly!


                        Matt
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                        Yann Solo
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                          March 2006
                        • From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
                        Posted by Yann Solo on Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:18 PM

                        So we're supposed to see your name in the end credit of that documentary!

                        - " Special thanks to Matt Usher for is incredible work at modeling the sputnik scaled replica in a so short period of time."

                        No matter where you go ....... there you are.
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                        Matthew Usher
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                        Posted by Matthew Usher on Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:06 PM

                        Here's the finished project, just before it went to FedEx. It looked much shinier in person:

                        Matt @ FSM

                         

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:09 PM
                        Fantastic job Matt. You had such little time to do it. It looks so accurate. I also like the photo of it in your hand about to hurl it into space. The real Sputnik's launch was one of the major event so the Cold War
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:17 PM
                        Could you post some Sputnik drawings or dimensions for the rest of us?
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