This model brings back a lot of memories for me. It was probably around 1967 or 68 that I went into DeVita's Dept store (Pete's) and in the toys aisle, found a toy that you had to build before playing with. It was the US Moon Ship! This kit was put out by Lindbergh in the pre Apollo Era of 1958.
I'm sure I put the thing together in 30 minutes and barely waited for the glue to try before zooming it around the house.
Move fwd 45 years or so and the Moon ship is available once again. This time released by Round Two, but they kept the old Lindbergh box. Pretty cool! Hopefully I'll build it a little better than when I was 8. ;)
First, I put the main subassemblies together and then primed. Once dry, I went crazy with the preshading -
I went back to it a few days later and sprayed the entire model white, and put the parts together. The preshading is still there although a little too faint.
Did you see what I did? Ugh. I added the rails without the added "equipment." Then when I went to add the equipment, I realized that the equipment was on the same side of the ship, rather than being opposite each other. UGH. Oh well, It would be too much to try and fix it. So maybe I can't build it better than when I was 8... ;)
Stop back for the finale. Thanks for looking.
This time around I have a spur of the moment buy. I saw this kit on sale from Kit Kong's eBay page. It's Nancy from Sin City. Who didn't like Nancy? ;)
She's just washed but not primed yet. The kits also doesn't come with the rope nor the fringe on the chaps and gloves. I'll have to think about how to do the fringe...
The paint-up should be simple -
Thanks for looking.
One of these days I'll get around to numbering this series... or maybe not. Do I really need wifey knowing. ;) Hehe (kidding)
This evening I'm back for another round of goodies that arrived at my door since last time.
First is The 1941 Wolfman. Werewolves were always my favorite monster and anytime I see a kit of one, I try my best to get it.This version is the one made famous by Lon Chaney Jr.. It was sculpted by Jim Deary and casted by Gillman Productions. He too is nicely sculpted, and the casting looks great.
I was doing a preshade on a kit I will be showing shortly, and while I had the airbrush cup with extra black primer, I gave Wolfie a shot. Then I just added a highlight shot of white primer from a 45° high angle.
A short post tonight.
Well, I've finally decided the Giant is finished. Once again it's more like abandoning it that finishing it because I feel I could keep tinkering with it. :-P
Anyway, I added some Z scale spruce trees and some snow. Thanks for looking.
This time around I was tackling the base. But first I had to cut off the base the Giant already had. Easier said than done. I took a fine saw and it just wasn't making a dent. So finally I got my sprue cutters and went at it -
Once he was off the plastic disk. I chose one of the numerous water "bowls" that I have hanging around from my spider enclosures. I filled it with Celluclay, and once dry Put a layer of Aves over the top. From there I took some loosely wadded up tin foil and made some suggestion of ground work. Then I pushed the Giant and some Z scale spruce trees into the Aves.
