International Space Station Paper Model Assembling User Guide
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1. The part 13 and 7 are not reinforced but has to be glued on the upper and lower base at the end of this assembly These elements will not be visible since the base will be glued to 71 and 13 will be cov ered by 40 however they have been included bur a great realism page 11 Now the final effort Glue the PV boom canister base over the P6 main body Glue all the three radiators in place Attach also the large box 12 14 the small box 15 over its base 16 reinforced and the two boxes 17 and 18 The Boxes 28 29 and 30 have to be mounted close to each radiator in their specif ic gluing boxes Mount also all _ the target and the the grabble fixtures on the modules The supports 35 and 57 are mounted on the Forward pan el The support 36 and 56 on the Aft panel At the end you should have only few unused parts 53 54 55 56 and 57 that are spare Now you can glue the entire over the Z1 where it will stay until it will be relocated to form the ISS main truss Congratulation you finished your P6 element If you enjoyed and if you like your new updated ISS Paper Model why don t joint the ISS Paper Model Supporter group by providing a small financial help to the designer Consider that I spent more than 100 hours only to design the P6 to test it and to write this manual For further info read the web page http www marscenter it 1ss paper_iss_model html Please se2. clips to ensure good gluing and contact between the layers dry At this stage you can insert the PV panels in the canisters and fit on place by using the three rings 85 closed by the 85b Note that probably it is better to glue the base and the canisters on the main body of P6 before insert the two PVs in the Canisters If you plan to keep mounted the PV panels all time sus pend them with a line of nylon glued at the tips to reduce the load on the canis ters Glue the disk carefully to avoid that glue in excess could prevent the rotation of the PV page 7 Start to mount the three N radiators Cut the vari ous elements from sheet 3 6 and glue on the card Ce N Se board the elements sur Sr rounded by the dashed red lines Cut and fold the three boxes 69 70 and 71 Glue them in the center of the radiator plates 66 67 and 68 that need to be reinforced with cardboard Glue back to back the radiators 60 and 61 Pay attention to align them care fully The gray part with small strips shall not be glued Repeat the procedure for the other two radiators 62 63 and 64 65 Radiator Plate 06 67 Radiator Bend each radiator so that it is shaped in the same way that the extensor 72 that are here illustrated to be used as reference for the bending angles Use two rulers to bend each panel of the radiator Cut the reinforced extensors 72 with a cutte
3. 79 80 The tip has to be inserted in the stacked squares Take also two solar panels Put the blue side of the panel as indicated in the drawing below and the teeth edge external The four stripes have to be inserted in the four slots of the supports Once in place you shall glue the stripes on both side of the support and let them dry teeth Yellow side teeth Once the elements are dried insert the boom also on the other support 77 78 The red part has to pass through the squared hole of the support The four stripes of the PV panel have to be inserted in the four slots of the supports and the two panels have to be kept tight between the two supports Use a pair of tweets to pull the strips and align the solar panel aff Cut the cardboard rein forced parts 81 82 83 and 84 Insert them in the boom tip and glue them on each red stripe Se SESS SEE SRR oC SR OS gt Read the next page to check the distance between the four disks page 4 6 For a better realism I designed also the rotating mecha 284 nism for the beta joint so that the panels can orient J ed toward the sun You need a wooden stick with a ap diameter of 3 mm and length of 4 5 mm for the 1 144 model use a 2 mm one for a length of 3 2 mm Cut the four reinforced squared parts 88 Cut an hole in the center of eac
4. Assembling International User Guide dR Space Station Paper Model Flights 4A pi STS 97 Assembling Drawings De Chiara Dear Modeler this paper model 15 part of the International Space Station Paper Model It has been built from scratch on the basis of photos published by NASA Please notify to me any error or discrepancy you could find during the assembly My e mail is fortezza marscenter it The modifications will be implemented according to your suggestions and you will be kept informed when the updated version will be made available Detailed pictures are available at NASA WEB site at speceflight nasa gov If you require an high degree of fidelity in your model please check these images before the assembly to control the correct positioning of each part However drawings of ISS P6 elements have been included in this manual These models should be considered as a shareware as the previous ones and the idea is to develop the model 1 100 and 1 144 of the entire ISS If you want to support the initiative please joint the supporter group and send a financial support to the developer at the address indicated in the last page Your name will be posted in the Supporter list published on the Paper ISS page at MARS WEB site and you can download all the updated version of the ISS with the new Modules that will be launched up to the end of the year 2001 High quality printed model Unity Zarya Shuttle Endeavour
5. Zvezda Soyuz Progress Z1 P6 and related manuals is available based on un compressed files and original sheets printed with 1440 dpi ink jet printer If you are interested please send me a request via e mail provide you the cost and time estimation Send the money directly via mail to the address indicated at the last page The model is shipped using ordinary post service If you want express courier please specify it in your request Enjoy Raimondo Fortezza P6 Assembling Guide P6 Element should be mounted in this phase above the Z1 The P6 is formed by 9 Sheets 4 printed on glossy paper sheets 4 cardboard Photo paper sheets and transparent For your help make also a b w copy of each sheet so that you can have the labels the parts num bers and other indication as reference guide also when the sheets are cut In addition to scissor glue rulers cutters and all the common modelers tools to mount the huge photovoltaic panels you need two square section stick 7x7 and 6x6 mm to easy the gluing of the telescopic boom the material is not important The length of the sticks should be 25 cm 10 For the 1 144 model you need 5 x 5 and 4 x 4 stick The P6 will be relocated in the future to form part of the ISS main truss that in scale 1 100 will be longer than meter For this reason the P6 element is really stiff and requires the use of thick card board All the part included in a red dashed rectangles should be glued on this thick c
6. ardboard A tick cardboard sheet is available in each pack of Epson quality paper and it is suitable as well as any cardboard with a thickness in the range 0 7 0 8 mm if you use thicker paper the elements do not fit Cut out and bend the parts following the lines For best results use a sharp hobby knife and a metal straight edge For some parts small scissor normal and curved is better Glue together the parts using a thin even coat of ordinary whitedue or the new transparent gel glue Print the sheets on a color The P6 starts from the four Solar printer The format of this Panels mounted in couple The model should be compati Photovoltaic PV Panels are ble with both A 4 or US long about 35 cm each and can Letter sheets size Images not enter entirely in an A4 sheet of real elements have For this reason each PV has been been included in this cut in several parts The same manual to help 47 approach has been used for the you during 44 telescopic boom Print on glossy assembly 75 paper the sheets 2 3 4 44 5 The sheets 2 amp 3 are the same sheet so you shall print two copy of it The same concept applies to sheets 4 5 and 7 8 Cut the parts 44 48 and 45 represent ing the solar panels Print the sheets 7 amp 8 on cardboard for instance Epson Photo 4 8 paper Cut the 74 and 73 and glue 48 them on previous elements Glue also the back side of the panel formed by the parts 43 47 and 46 Try to ali
7. during a recent flight As final step we need to build the main body of P6 A 4 gt formed by IEA and the Long Spacer We start from the lt base 8 reinforced with cardboard on which to improve the stiffness you should glue the four triangular supports 42 Please consider that the printed part is the external one and that the triangles should be mount on the other side Do the same with the other plate 9 10 and 11 As already explained the P6 has been designed to be very stiff to sustain the bending load once it form the ISS C structure long more than 1 meter Note that the forward and aft pan els are formed by two separate parts while port and starboard 1s formed by a continuous panel All the panels and the bases need to be reinforced with cardboard Glue them under a weight to keep them perfectly flat On the star board and port panels there are two slot needed to fix the 9 and 10 bases To improve the realism try to cut the slot only on the card board and not on the colored exter nal sheet Make a test with all the part in the right place without glue to check how they fit Please con sider that each base has different joints for each panel so that its cor rect position is unique Additional drawing have been add at the end of this manual to check the posi tion of small parts Once glued try to use clips rubber bend or other systems to leave all the element in place during the glue drying
8. g belt 27 2 Glue on tip a 2 small piece of steel wire in the center 574 page 9 32 Spacer left part and the Integrated Equipment Assembly right part The side shown 1 the ward please note the position of all the target to be placed on the model If you want to improve the realism note the sort of pocket located in the central part of the covering blanket The support you can see is the 56 and you can understand how to mount the tube 55 In the lower side of the structure are located the two keel fixations 22 and 23 with the protruding steel rod 77 _ 222 Pr ia T E sa IWE P f Si Picture of the P6 in the integration hall at KSC suspended over the MPLM The side shown 1 the aft Please note the position of all the target to be placed the model The support you can see 15 the 57 and you can understand how to mount the tube 55 and the grabble fixture for the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System In the lower side of the structure you can see the keel fixation 22 with the steel rod protruding and the two target note that one is mounted at 90 respect the other 5 0 4 Mount the movable grabble fixture formed by part 39 to be fold and glued and 41 simply reinforced with cardboard Over it can mount on it the last grabble fixture 38 installed there
9. gn each part carefully before to glue them Leave the glue dry by keeping the part under weight or inside a large book so that the panel stay flat 45 Cut also the central parts 75 76 and form another solar 45 panels At the end you should form 4 different solar panels Please note that each panel is not fully symmetric but an edge is flat and 15 the internal one close to the boom while the other is formed by a raw of teeth and is the external one page 2 Cut the other parts from sheets 7 amp 8 and glue them on a thick cardboard I used the Cardboard sheet included in each pack of Epson quality paper as bending protection It is about 0 7 mm gt thick Cut all the parts from 77 to 22 91 Please consider that in this ZN block part 89 is the only one that amp S shall not be glued on the card RF TR voard All the part indicated with NS a red capital R surrounded by a a Cut circle has to be removed Glue on Cardboard Glue back to back the panel supports parts 77 and 78 The two squared areas have to be removed Cut also all the four small rectangles as indicated in the figure Do the same with parts 79 and 80 Keep aligned the two parts and the four small slots during gluing Cut and glue the three 87 squares as a stack On the top glue the part 86 At the end you should mount two different couples of supports Now you should start to mount the tele
10. h part and insert each of them in the stick The distance of the disks and of the squares in indicated in the drawings Before glue disks and squares check how they fit on the boom and adjust accordingly 5 5 10 5 gt 16 5 14 10 mF m 45 mm Disks lt Squares Cut fold and glue the four panel containers 49 50 51 and 52 You need two set of them The container has two Open areas in the base to allow the stripes of the solar panel protruding from the support to stay inside the box Glue a couple of containers each panel support The two photovoltaic panels are ready KS Cut the supports of the boom canister 90 from sheets 7 amp 8 Glue them on the cardboard and let them dry flat under a weight Cut carefully with a cutter from the cardboard including the long horizontal slots located on both side in the middle page 5 cardboard Cut and bend has indicated in drawing Remove the circle from the support Flip first th left and right part to the internal side Do the same with the lower part then the lower part has to be bent and inserted inside Follow the drawing for a better understanding Be aware that this part has to be very stiff because it has to sustain the entire weight of the Photovolta ic Panel Cut also the part 89 and 91 reinforced Insert the 91 inside the 89 as depicted in the left drawing Flip t
11. he three rectangles around the circle forward flip the other walls back ward Be aware that once the glue is dry you have to remove a 3 mm diameter disk in the center Glue together the part 89 and 90 by inserting the 89 inside the 90 This part is not very realistic simply because the real canister does not support the weight of the solar panel the gravity force on the ISS is less than millionth respect to earth this environment is called microgravity However the shape of this part is not so bad and I hope that also the purists can accept it it is also slightly larger than reality Prepare the boom canister support 90 It has been reinforced with A ay page 6 9 ie 4 i 2 Y HER x ij Roll the canister 59 two of them are needed Try to distribute uniformly the glue on the entire white part with red spots so that the cylinder become stiff and rigid Once mounted bend the gluing tabs and check how it fits inside the sup port Once it enter exactly inside the hole glue in place considering that the harness and the glu ing rectangle are located on the upper part Bend the part 58 and glue inside the cavity Once both supports are ready glue them on the part 40 reinforced with three different layers of cardboard to avoid the torsion caused by the not Symmetric geometry of the panels Once the 3 layers are dried glue around the 40 the belt 40 side Use
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14. r Cut carefully avoiding to bend them once cut The gray part should stay as external side Pay attention that the extensors have two different shape since one has to be mounted above and the other below the radia tor Attach the radiator to the box by gluing the gray tab and stick to the box side page 8 Once mounted each radiator has to be shaped like the draw ing on the right You need to mount three of them to be attached to P6 Fold mount the box 14 Glue it on the plate 12 rein forced with card board Fold and mount the keel Fold and mount support 23 and 24 and the support 35 the internal and the sur and 3 6 Glue rounding belts 26 and the tip the half cir 25 Glue on the tip a cle a small piece of steel wire steel wire in the in the center center a 4 Fold and mount Support 56 the support 56 formed by glu Tube 55 ing back to back the reinforced parts 56 and the surrounding belt Glue the tube to the supports 53 Do the Rolland glue and cut of the right length same with parts the tube 55 three of them are Glue on the tip the half disk 57 needed one is spare Each 32 and a small piece of steel tube has to be cut for the need wire Repeat the procedure for C ed length 57 E 6 Fold and mount the gt keel support 21 22 and the sur N roundin
15. scopic boom used to extend the solar panel The boom shall be printed on a trans parent sheet The first boom is formed by the three different parts 92 93 and 94 The second boom with 95 96 and 97 I used a plastic stick with square sec tion of 7 x 7 mm as support during the gluing phase Use a sharp knife on the not printed side to engrave the bending lines The external side is the printed one The glue has to be distrib uted on the clear side and distributed uni formly on the entire side Use transparent glue for the boom During the glue drying use clips to keep the surfaces pressed each other Using the stick this operation is more easy and the glue form a thin transparent layer Glue first the section 92 Do the same with section 94 The two elements in reality are formed by very thin steel and carbon fiber structure Since for the model we need a stiff structure the transpar ent sheet has been selected as the more realistic approach Try to glue carefully so that the structure stay more transparent as possi ble Use the second stick 6 x 6 mm to glue part 93 Once the three parts are dried glue them together The part red of 92 1s one tip The other tip is indicated on the side of part 94 The element 93 has to be glued inside and in the middle of the boom Pay attention to distribute the glue uniformly on the 93 before to insert it in the 92 and 94 Once the boom is dry insert it in the
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