CaptainObvious

Fantastic job! Very convincing overall finish 👍

beautifully done!

Thanks Steve, I'll be sure to check it out :)

Hi snichols, Thank you for your encouraging words. Your LM projects are amazing! I got burnt out doing this simple project so I can't imagine the commitment required to get to that level of your LMs. Really awesome stuff!

Thank you for your very kind words Pete! Your postings played no small part in this project. I do find spaceflight facinating. I've read many books, watched numerous documentaries and movies. This was what lead me to start this project. Little did I know how deep this rabbit hole goes. Looking at the numerous, sometimes conflicting references and trying to make sense of it all left me overwhelmed. As can be seen from the length of time it took, I got a little burnt out. Working in short spurts at this bear of a kit, it eventually crawled to completion. D

Hi all, This took me a while but I'm glad it got done. It's not accurate by any measure but it looks somewhat like a lander from 3 feet away. Thanks for looking 🙂 -co

Looks flawless to me. I'm glad you listened to your wife 😅 -co

That cockpit turned out nice. Those finemolds seatbelts really dressed up the seats. -co

Whoa. This is excellent work all around. The cockpit is real nice. The metal finish is gorgeous! Dealing with decal carrier film is my biggest hesitation with doing bare metal schemes but there is not a hint of it anywhere. Absolutely flawless decal work. How did you manage that? -co

Nice job Kurt. They both turned out really well. The concluding write up was very informative. -co

Thanks a lot Bill!

That metal finish is FANTASTIC! Could you provide some information on how it was achieved? -co

That detail is dialed up to 11! Awesome work. -co

Great progress. Almost there! -co

I give the older Hasegawa kit a slight edge.

Concluding with some of personal thoughts, The Airfix kit is easier to build with great decals. However, the plastic is softer and the details less crisp compared to the Hasegawa. Other minor cons include missing prominent panels and inaccurate roundels. The Hasegawa has nicer surface details and the harder plastic imparts sharper features. However, the fussy multi part fuselage and unusable decals are big negatives. None of the negatives are show stoppers. They both cost about the same and in the end, both kits build into good scale representati

Hi folks, I managed to get the second one done. She's weathered pretty much the same way as the previous completion. The flight stand is from Hasegawa. -co

That's nice, neat work. Weathering is just right and your pictures show off your work really well. -co

That turned out really nice! -co

What a huge project! 4 at once 😵 Fantastic, quality work too. I'm glad you fixed the canopy issue. I totally empathise with not being able to unsee certain things. -co

That's very nice of you to say. Thanks for dropping in! -co

Hi all, I hope that everyone is keeping well through these testing times. On the positive side, I do find a bit more time for modelling. Here's the first one completed. Weathering was done with tamiya smoke and weathering pastels. Some chipping done with sponge and silver pencil. One more to go. -co

Kurt, That sounds like a very difficult time. My sincere condolences to you and your family. -co

I second what The Underdog said. Really great modelling in action! -co

Nice job! -co