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Thank you so much!
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Thank you , That’s a really cool picture that I’ve not seen before so thanks for sharing!
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Quite the inspirational message indeed!! Thank you again Harry for all your support! Best, Steve
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Odyssey is starting to look the part after some airbrush work , glazes and oil paint washes.
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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!
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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.
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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
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Well thank you sir I appreciate you taking the time to post and your interest in my work!
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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