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Thank you so much!

Thank you , That’s a really cool picture that I’ve not seen before so thanks for sharing!

Quite the inspirational message indeed!! Thank you again Harry for all your support! Best, Steve

Harry thanks but now I think it’s time to set it aside and concentrate on a figure or two, starting to loose the motivation here because of the ups and downs I’ve had building it.

Well I really should have left the dye portion of the water alone but I did not so I had to go over it again but I’am finally satisfied with the results.

Harry thank you but I’ve made some changes to the ocean dye area that I felt at that point in the recovery operation it was too saturated. Ron still not sure about some areas but thank you and see above about the dye area….. I feel it should have been more diluted at that point in the recovery mission. Yep it sure is harder than I remember modeling and even harder to photograph!😜😜 Andy glad you stopped by and visited our little of area of spaceflight modeling , thanks so much for your comments and come on back and take a look at the wonderful buil

Water is giving me fits !!🤯, it still needs a couple more coats of acrylic medium, antennae and beacon left to be installed on the CM plus figures need to be started. This was a spur of the moment build that turned into a …………. You guys want to see the failures too ?, let me know because the ocean was painted more than once.

Steve thank you and hopefully it will be completed, the water is turning out to be more of a challenge than I remember. Harry thanks for posting and your interest along the way, I couldn’t wait to try another splashdown diorama once I got the printer so hopefully I won’t disappoint! Thanks so much Ron , it’s been a a little up and down because of me rushing into this project as it was unplanned but it’s starting to take shape . I don’t know what to say other than wow!, that’s quite the compliment and I really appreciate you posting and keeping up

Thanks so much!1 Harry thank you , they were quite the challenge! Starting to feel comfortable now with the direction that this is going now that I’am focused.

Odyssey is starting to look the part after some airbrush work , glazes and oil paint washes.

Ron I was just browsing into my older post history and saw that you posted in a couple of threads many years ago so thank you for all your support past and present!

Yes that’s the foil and is exactly where it was purchased from, I’ll include some construction pictures of the windows too so get a brand new sewing needle and chuck it up in your pin vise and go to town. I used a set of 32d scale LM decals and traced the reticles from them, applied a wash of white acrylic paint let it dry then sanded off the residue.

Geez I don’t know what to say after that endorsement of my work other than this, I enjoy building and I’am proud to be amongst the other talented builders here whose skills far exceed mine so I can’t thank you enough! That word persistence has special meaning because had I done my homework thing’s would be going much smoother now but I’ve finally nailed down a mission that was in my top 3 to duplicate and have the raft, collar and insulation scorch marks finally matching to recreate the splashdown of Odyssey . “A Successful Failure” will now be the title and I can’t help but feel th

Well thank you sir I appreciate you taking the time to post and your interest in my work!

Harry your words of encouragement are keeping me going here, thank you ! This was an unplanned build and unfortunately it came back to bite me. I bought a 3d filament printer and created most of the parts with it but soon realized I needed a resin printer , then things got out of control while I rushed into the build without doing my research along with trying to learn how to 3d print with resin but no excuses. So I’ve had to change the mission 3 times now starting with Columbia then realized the raft is the wrong shape but is correct for 17’s mission however America had abso