Yamaha Papercraft is closing

Sad news! Yamaha Papercraft is closing. I already said that in the title, yes. But this might let it sink in a little more.
The papercraft site of the motorcycle building company has a couple of immensely detailed models of several beautifully crafted motorbikes. Their first, the YA-1 is my favourite. But they also have streamlined race bikes, their iconic V-Max and many more. Besides these motorbikes they also have a couple of big diorama settings with bikes and a lot of small animal papercraft models. I recommend you to go there and download them all before they're gone. It's all for free, so grab them all!

Not my build, but as an example of their catalogue: The Yamaha YA-1. Image: © Yamaha Motor Corporation

ANS - the first Dutch adventure in space [2]

Tonight it rained for the first time in weeks. While it was too hot to glue, I was working on the filmed interviews I did with the engineers that built the ANS. It was very interesting and also gave me more insights on how the satellite worked and how special this thing actually was in 1973. 
Now it has cooled down a little but still it is warm outside. But in the meantime, I did manage to do some micro-sessions to get a little further with the build of ANS, the little satellite that could. As we go further into the build, I will try to keep telling you some more details on this little nearly forgotten marvel from the dawn of the nineteen-seventies. The photo below shows where I am now, the rest of the story follows below.

The receptor of the Soft X-ray Telescope has been installed, the backside of the solar panels have been detailed. (Note: the solar panels will be reversed when finished, this side facing the other way.)