LCSP # STS-LAD-1-72

The Lake County Space Port Late Era Shuttle Orbiter AFRSI & White Tile Decal Set includes all of the “white” Thermal Protection System (TPS) areas, and other special detail areas, which are common to all late-era Space Shuttle Orbiters - OV-103 “Discovery,” OV-104 “Atlantis” and OV-105 “Endeavour.”  

The set includes 4 full sheets, which contain the following TPS areas:

• White Tiles for Crew Compartment Top & Side Surfaces (cockpit area top, behind and in front of cockpit windows)
• White Tiled OMS Pod front surfaces
• Forward Fuselage AFRSI Surfaces (forward for Cockpit to nose Black tiles)
• AFRSI for Mid-Body sides (below Payload Bay Doors)
• AFRSI for Payload Bay Door Lower surfaces
• AFRSI for Port & Starboard Wing Upper Surfaces
• AFRSI for Vertical Stabilizer Sides
• AFRSI for OMS Pod rear access panels
• Additional AFRSI strips for repairs and completion of the OMS Pod surfaces.

The Late Era Orbiter AFRSI & White Tile Decal Set must be paired with the 1/72 scale Shuttle Standard Orbiter Black Tile Decal Set in order to complete the overall TPS system for the specific Orbiter you are modelling.

 The set comes with four sheets of specifically designed tile & AFRSI decals and a four-page instruction guide.

The 1/72 scale Late Era Shuttle Orbiter AFRSI & White Tile Decal Set is being offered as an alternative to doing the Johnson & Johnson tape-based AFRSI Application Process. 

You will still need to properly pre-paint the model with the proper base colors and apply the Black Tile Decals form the 1/72 scale Shuttle Standard Tile Decal Set complete your model’s Thermal Protection System.

To create these decals, I found documents published by USA (United Space Alliance), the former Shuttle processing contractor, which contained drawings of the port side of the Orbiter's forward section (hatch side), as well as the port side Mid-Body. I was also able to find a drawing of the vertical stabilizer, in a very low-grade of resolution.

Using these as “feed stock,” I revised the original 1/144 scale white tile nose sections for the Shuttle Tile Decal Set, re-did the artwork for the vertical stabilizer, added "strip sections" of AFRSI for OMS Pod work and other "touch-ups," added the "still required" sections of the original Shuttle White Tile decals for the area around the cockpit windows, included a properly tiled front window frame and printed the whole thing on White Decal Paper stock, as a "Proof Sheet." This proof sheet was used to do the recently completed 1/144 scale “Endeavour” shown docked to the Revell ISS on the website.

The decal set is printed on Clear Decal Paper Stock.

LCSP recommends the Accurate Model Products (AMP) 1/72 scale Shuttle Window Set of all high-resolution Orbiter models. Just Google "AMP Shuttle Window Set" to find their website.

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