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SPACE => NASA => APOLLO => Topic started by: Rokket on 12 Feb , 2010, 15:19

Title: Lunar lander
Post by: Rokket on 12 Feb , 2010, 15:19

My wife built the Revell 1:48 Lunar Lander some years ago, and I thought I'd put  link in here. She researched it very well, and scratch built the antennas and even the spiral Mylar wrappings, and the black panels. She made the skin of of al-foil so five that super-thin, poppy look. A bit of spray adhesive and a sprinkle of cement (as in concrete powder) gave the lunar surface a "kick."

(http://jg.rokket.biz/img/lem4.jpg)

more at: http://jg.rokket.biz/lunar.html (http://jg.rokket.biz/lunar.html)

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Siara on 12 Feb , 2010, 15:30

She is twice the modeler you are Wink!    ;) ;D

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Rokket on 12 Feb , 2010, 15:49

Thanks Siara! She's very good.

I drea of dong a scratch 1:24+ one day. Have some new research material and pix, but that project is a way off.

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Greif on 14 Feb , 2010, 02:02

You wife is a modeller!?  Cool!!!  Very nicely done on her part Wink.

Ernest

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: dougie47 on 14 Feb , 2010, 05:55

Hi Wink,

Your wife's lunar model is very cool, please pass on my appreciation. Also really like her drawings.

Cheers,

Dougie

PS - Love the Roman dinner pics - never knew you were a Centurion, Wink!

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Rokket on 14 Feb , 2010, 23:43

ahhh, forgot about the rest of that, links lead deep! Thanks Dougie, Ernest

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Mr. Bill on 18 Feb , 2010, 14:35

Hi Wink,

How very lucky you are to have a wife with an interest in scale models AND the skill to build them!  Mine likes to look at them and asks some questions, but is terrified to touch styrene - like a vampire with garlic!

Cheers,

Bill

Title: Re: Lunar lander
Post by: Rokket on 19 Feb , 2010, 01:02

LOL Bill!

Speaking of garlic, I ust swerve off topic and share some related humor. Bought some garlic, as in to plant in the garden, seedlings. The plastic tag you stick in the ground had the usual: photo, where to plant, water, etc., etc. At the bottom it also said: "strands of hanging garlic will keep vampires away." I fell off my chair and ran out to plant!