Future Retro Moon Suit Finale

I left off with the assembly under way. I finished that up, and then turned to the decal.  First thing I noticed was that it was VERY thick. Almost to the point where I thought it was a sticker and not a decal. Even cutting the decal close, in a few spots it wasn't close enough and if you really look, you can see the carrier film. Oh well. 
I added some black/gray "dust" to the suit and positioned it on the moon base.  Thanks for looking.

Vic Torry's Spaceship

Vic Torry and his Flying Saucer was a pulp comic released in 1950 at the height of the flying saucer craze. In one episode Vic, an aviator, and his girlfriend are given a flying saucer by a dying alien. Getting in, it is programmed to return to the home planet of Mercury. They land amidst a civil war...

I picked this kit out of the stash after the Moon Suit and Charon builds, I wanted something simple. Looking it over I don't think I could get anything more simple. 
The Atlantis kit is 4 parts of yellow styrene for the saucer and 4 parts of purple for the base. It also comes with a card stock cardboard of pages of the comic. It also comes with a little blinking LED, but I'm leaving that out.

 The one thing that confused me about the model is that the kit is yellow plastic, the saucer in the comic is yellow, and a lot of the models I see built are painted from a yellow through a gold color. But right in the first page of the comic, the script says the saucer is silver! 

Hmmm.  I will be painting my saucer silver!  

Looking the kit over and test fitting, it's apparent that there are no windows, so I will have to add them later. But first I blacked out the interior so it hides the yellow and the fact that there is no interior. 

You can see that the two engines have also been attached.

I then closed the two halves up and puttied the seam around the edge.  After that. I painted the craft Vallejo's gloss black primer to be ready for V's Metallics. 

I like their Duraluminum color. But that's for next time. Thanks for looking

Future Retro Moon Suit part 2

Most of the sanding and smoothing done, I started the assembly.
A few of the resin windows on the bottom were troublesome. They were fit and sanded, and tried again, and more sanding, until the part went in place smoothly. Then I applied the superglue and it didn't fit. UGH. One got a little blob of glue on one corner. But by this time I was tired of fiddling with it and just stuck it in there. I attempted to sand it while in place, and then added a few drops of Future. Doesn't look great, but not that bad. I may do some weather to hide it a bit...   Thanks for looking.

Resin windows aren't totally clear, but I like 'em better than vac form.

This is the window that caused me all the problems.

Antenna attached.

Future Retro Moon Suit

I've had this model  from Futuristic Models in my stash for a while now. IIRC there was supposed to be a styrene version produced by someone, but apparently that plan must have just gone away. Liking the Future Retro look and wanting one, I picked this model.

There are two version of this Moon Suit; one with the astronaut running with a rock and a rock hammer, the other with the astronaut just standing there. I have the running version. It's apparently based on this image from Life -

 

The kit is a gray resin, with the windows a clear resin. The clear is mostly clear and dips in Future made it slightly better. There was a seam line on the main body par, and some flash here and there, but nothing that couldn't be dealt with- 

The aforementioned seam

The other thing to notice was the very big pour plug on the main window. I always take clear resin as being brittle, so I was very careful with the dremel tool getting rid of this plug.  I did get a crack on the bottom but I luckily caught it in time and super glued it closed.  All the clear parts then got a dip in Future. 

Taking a break from cleaning the seams - yes there is a little noticeable line along the accordion section of the arms and legs - I decided to paint the astronaut - 

More painting and I start the assembly next time. Thanks for looking.

Me. 1092. I didn't forget. Part 4

We left off with some Tamiya putty on the xtra large panel lines on the plane. 
I left it for a few days and then started wet sanding. Many of the problems appeared to disappear, but after  spraying with Tamiya primer, I still have a ways to go for a smooth fuselage.  Sigh.  
Thanks for looking.

Charon Vignette Finale

As I was putting this together, I realized that I mad a major goof. The demon(#1) who has his arm thrust forward, was glued in place a little too forward. This made the second demon also too far forward, making the lost soul too far forward. 

I noticed this when the other side of Demon #1 did not meet up with the water. How could I have missed that?? The only thing to do besides trying to pull him off and chance breaking him, was to get out the Aves, and create a wave extension. This is what I did.  I think I did a decent job of masking the goof.  
After that I got some of Vallejo's Realistic Water, mixed it with some of V's Green Slime and filled in the water up against the bodies.  Thanks for looking. 

 

Charon's Vignette part 3

This session I did some work on the figures - the two demons, the lost soul and Charon - 

I'll put it all together for the next time. Thanks for looking.