Hi everyone,
Approximately 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong descend down the ladder on July 21st 1969 including a 12 year old me on a 13 inch CRT Bush TV. This viewing figure was only beaten when a certain Diana Spencer tied the knot with a Charles Windsor some years later.
The Lunar Lander weighed approximately 19000 kg with fuel, provisions and crew and had a designed operational life of 75 hours with very thin sheets of alumunium and Kapton foil between the astronauts and oblivion, very brave men in my opinion.
I have attempted to build LM5 better known as Eagle from Apollo 11 using the Revell 1/48 kit ( ex Dragon? ) which is built pretty much OOB excepting the Kapton foil on the underside of the Ascent Module and the colours which were provided by Paul Fjeld and the Grumman/Northrop History Office. The kit went together well with the gaps around all those spindly legs filled with sprue glue and basically left as is in order to match the moulded in Kapton foil details on the Descent Module. The largest time of the 65 hour build was spent mixing colours, masking, painting and repeat 3 times on the Ascent Stage, a lot of free hand painting was also done. Thoroughly enjoyed this build and feel very happy and proud of the outcome, let me know your thoughts good or bad.
Now to find a reasonably priced Dragon 1/48 Apollo 11 Columbia CSM kit and their 1/72 Apollo Recovery Sikorsky SH-3D with CM and PE hoist cage to complement this and the Revell 1/144 Saturn 5 kit I have yet to build.
Enough waffle and onto the images.
Regards
Stefan.
Approximately 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong descend down the ladder on July 21st 1969 including a 12 year old me on a 13 inch CRT Bush TV. This viewing figure was only beaten when a certain Diana Spencer tied the knot with a Charles Windsor some years later.
The Lunar Lander weighed approximately 19000 kg with fuel, provisions and crew and had a designed operational life of 75 hours with very thin sheets of alumunium and Kapton foil between the astronauts and oblivion, very brave men in my opinion.
I have attempted to build LM5 better known as Eagle from Apollo 11 using the Revell 1/48 kit ( ex Dragon? ) which is built pretty much OOB excepting the Kapton foil on the underside of the Ascent Module and the colours which were provided by Paul Fjeld and the Grumman/Northrop History Office. The kit went together well with the gaps around all those spindly legs filled with sprue glue and basically left as is in order to match the moulded in Kapton foil details on the Descent Module. The largest time of the 65 hour build was spent mixing colours, masking, painting and repeat 3 times on the Ascent Stage, a lot of free hand painting was also done. Thoroughly enjoyed this build and feel very happy and proud of the outcome, let me know your thoughts good or bad.
Now to find a reasonably priced Dragon 1/48 Apollo 11 Columbia CSM kit and their 1/72 Apollo Recovery Sikorsky SH-3D with CM and PE hoist cage to complement this and the Revell 1/144 Saturn 5 kit I have yet to build.
Enough waffle and onto the images.
Regards
Stefan.
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