I couldn't fit it all into one post!!
Anyway... If you haven't already, see the post on the Venera xyz trajectories. It'll give you a better idea of what's going on here!
I've made 4 models (all converted from the VRML's at the russian virtual space museum of the different stages that the venera craft went through.
You can download the models from the spacecraft page on my site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/ but you'll probably want to see what they look like first, soo...
Venera 2 was designed like so:
Veneras 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 were built with this deisgn:
Veneras 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 were of this design:
And, finally, Veneras 15 & 16 (surface radar mappers) were designed like this:
Enjoy!
