About the Publisher and SIM

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Mike Mackowski

Space In Miniature (SIM) is a series of monographs (magazine style booklets of about 40 to 60 pages each) that covers various topics in the area of building scale models of real spacecraft. I am the editor/author of these books and a retired engineer in the aerospace industry.  I feel very fortunate to have been able to combine my interest in space in both my hobby and my profession. These books are not intended to be a history of the topic, like Gemini or the Russian space program. Instead, they are designed to provide the serious "real space" modeler with the scale data and modeling information that cannot be found anywhere else, at least compiled in one place. Occasionally a mild historical treatment is necessary to describe how and why the appearance of a space vehicle may have changed over the course of the program. The emphasis is on the exterior details and features of interest to model builders (and graphic artists, for that matter) via the use of scale drawings and other line drawings. I have spent years collecting this material and am happy to share it with my modeling friends. I am an aerospace engineer and a long-time modeler who has been active for many years in this topic as a member of the International Plastic Modelers Society (IPMS). I served as editor of CRAZED PLASTIC (formerly published by the Gateway Chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society [IPMS]), published the quarterly Scale Spacecraft Newsletter, and once had a a column on space modeling in the IPMS Journal. I have also served as the chief category judge for Space and Science Fiction at the annual National Contest of IPMS from about 1990 thru 2007. There are nine full-sized (40 pages or more) books available in the Space In Miniature series. Most volumes have sold out of their original print run and are available only as photocopies. See the order form for status. In September 2010 I started creating shorter "Tech Reports" available only as a pdf download. These are typically on more focused topics with a smaller page count. Titles with a "X.1" format indicate a revised version. SIM #1.1 - A Scale Spacecraft Primer SIM #2 - Gemini SIM #3.1 - Space Shuttle SIM #4.1 - Soviet Spacecraft SIM #5 - Mercury SIM #6 - Apollo CSM SIM #7.1 - Apollo LM SIM #8 - Space Suits SIM #9 - Building Gemini SIM TR-1 - Skylab SIM TR-2 - Mir SIM TR-3 - Nova SIM TR-4 - Buran SIM TR-5 - Shuttle Payloads SIM TR-6 - US Space Missiles Go to the links at the left for more details.