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    1/72 Airfix Lunar Module

    in Ready for Inspection - SF & RealSpace

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    On 9/6/2022 at 1:40 AM, Majorjim said:

    Thank you for the reply! I bought a paint pen but it puts down too much paint and I can’t find a finer tipped one.. what pen did you use for this? 

    I've hunted high and low, but I suspect one of my kids may have borrowed the pen! It has been a while since I see it, but I would guess that it was a gundam product. If it ever resurfaces I'll let you know

    1/48 Lunar module - 3d printed

    in Work In Progress - SF & RealSpace

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    A year or so ago I was browsing Thingiverse & came across a stunning project to build a 1/48 scale Lunar module. I downloaded the entire project immediately - which was lucky as it appears to have subsequently removed from thingiverse & is now only available as a paid for download. Although I must say 31 euros is a bargain for this model, which can be found here.

    At the time I only had an FDM printer & after looking at the parts decided that trying to print it would be madness. Since then Xmas has come & gone - and I'm now the proud owner of an Elegoo Mars resin printer.

    So here we go.....

     

    The main part of the descent stage is made up of two main pieces. Here it is with the first of the four outriggers attached.

     

    1/48 lunar module LM-5 - Eagle

     

     

    And here it is again next to the 1/72 Airfix LM

     

    1/48 lunar module LM-5 - Eagle

     

    The 3D printed parts aren't all that go into this - the master model maker that designed this has created a web site showing  how to put the thing together & has included a number of patterns & decal sheets that can be printed out. I am in total awe of this guy - the attention to detail is astounding. his website can be found here.

     

    The first patterns to use are for cutting out foil shapes to cover the descent stage. It takes a long time. I've use kitchen foil painted black, unpainted kitchen foil, gold foil, bronze foil & coffee coloured foil.

     

    1/48 lunar module LM-5 - Eagle

     

    That's pretty much as far as I've got so far with the descent stage.

     

    The ascent stage is a totally different beast. All the panels can be printed out. I have tried using a Brother Colour laser printer, printing on silver pearlescent vinyl sheets. The first attempt was just a mess of colour & nearly destroyed the printer. Since then I have had some success, although the colour seems to fade as the page gets halfway through the printer. My next attempt was to print on clear waterslide decal paper & then apply the decals to the pearlescent sheets, this has come out a lot better. Some of the panels do need to be bent, or formed around some complex shapes, the decals for these have been applied to sticky backed aluminium tape. I also cut slivers of the tape to make the joins between the panels.

     

    1/48 lunar module LM-5 - Eagle

     

     

    1/48 lunar module LM-5 - Eagle

     

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    3d printed Discovery (2001 A Space Odyssey)

    in Work In Progress - SF & RealSpace

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    18 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

    Mind is thoroughly blown on this.  🤯 ... If i ever had the chance to do one of these, i think I’d have to give a try at opening a hanger door. Possibly putting a probe ship or two inside. Maybe even onprepping for launch on the extended platform ? But thats waaaay in the future. And only if i win a lottery and find a long lost mega rich ancestor. 

    There is a guy on thingiverse working on a remodelled front end, with a pod bay door open & all the interior. My model is all on a single steel rod & the main parts are not glued together, so there is a good possibility that I will remodel the front end with a pod bay door open (no matter what HAL says). I will be adding an EVA pod at some point too.

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    3d printed Discovery (2001 A Space Odyssey)

    in Work In Progress - SF & RealSpace

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    On 1/11/2020 at 5:24 PM, mabbog said:

    Excellent work.  I did one from the same printing files a while ago.  About 1.7m long.  I don't seem to able to link in any images at present.

     

     

     

     

    i'd be interested to see your pics when you can link them. The sphere is nowhere near as good as I want it at the moment, but I will assemble & complete the model with the current sphere & maybe reprint it in a few months time when I'm convinced I have the printer tuned better.

     

    3d printed Discovery (2001 A Space Odyssey)

    in Work In Progress - SF & RealSpace

    Posted

    I had to put this on hold for a while as I had some issues with the printer & it took me a month to fathom out what I was doing wrong. Anyway, printing has resumed now, the rear section is complete & I'm slowly working my way along the centre sections...

     

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    the rear is made up of four main sections - then covered with two square plates on the top & two on the underside..

     

    IMG_20191028_214723

     

    each of the centre sections is made up of three modules joined together with three 3-sided 'nuts & then each of these sections is joined to the next one with a small separating collar.

     

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    I'm hoping to get these pieces tidied up over the weekend & get an initial coat of Vallejo primer sprayed over it all. Looking at the movie, the original appears to be all the same colour except for a few panels on the front sphere - I'll probably shade a few more sections just to highlight the detail.

     

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    3d printed Discovery (2001 A Space Odyssey)

    in Work In Progress - SF & RealSpace

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    I've had my current 3d printer for around 6 months & have now got it tuned to the point that I feel confident to tackle a large project. I'm going to try to build a model of Discovery - the deeps space ship that appears in 2001 A Space Odyssey. I found the 3d model on thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:950664

    The scale is approximately 160:1 & when built is should measure just over a metre long.

    The printer is a Geeetech A10 & I'm using Eryone PLA filament. The first parts I've printed are the engines & a handful of the pods that make up the long section of the body. I guess that it's going to take me to the end of next month to print all the parts & I hope to have the whole thing complete before the end of the year. Here's a picture of the first few bits:

    1st parts for discovery

     

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    Paper Real Space Models

    in RealSpace Discussion

    Posted

    I built a paper saturn V a few years ago for my daughter's school  project (she did get involved... sort of) It ended up pinned to the wall of her classroom for over a year. I used this link http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_real.html

     

    The one big tip is - use heavy weight paper. I used cheap photocopier paper & the 1st stage had slightly buckled walls. having said that, the quality of the model you can create is astounding & it's good fun. If you mess a bit up, you just have to reprint it. 

    You might want to test the water with something a bit simpler first. My first attempt was the Ares I (also available on the same site), you can knock this up in an evening & I promise you will not be disappointed.

    Paper model of Saturn v

     

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    1/72 Airfix Lunar Module

    in Ready for Inspection - SF & RealSpace

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    I was determined to build a lunar module before the 20th of this month - unfortunately Airfix haven't released the 50th Anniversary kit yet, so acquired the 40th anniversary edition - looks to me that the 50th anniversary edition won't be any different. I first built this kit way back in 1969, hopefully I've achieved a better result this time.

     

    I've made a few modifications to the kit - the hatch was cut out & replaced by numerous layers of PVS until it looked right. I didn't use the foil in the kit - I bought gold & copper foil sweet wrappers on Ebay. The plume deflectors are attached to the 'down' nozzles in the kit - so these were cut apart & I made support frames for the deflectors  using stiff wire soldered together. I also used kitchen foil for the legs - these are backed with copper foil & have thin slivers of Kapton tape wrapped round them. The tape doesn't hold too well, so I'm re-fixing these with CA as they pop off.

     

    The windows have a coating of Tamiya clear green painted on the inside.

     

    For display purposes I have used the old round base - but some of the later pictures in here use the larger base to give a better depth to the images. The plinth was taken from Thingiverse & 3d printed.

     

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    Airfix 1/72 Lunar Module Airfix 1/72 Lunar Module Plume deflector rig

     

    Plinth printed for lem

     

     

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    N Gauge Dapol signals

    in Locos, Trains and Layouts

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    I thought I'd share this with you - a couple of Dapol semaphore signals fitted to my railway this evening. I have a couple  of BM1 braking modules associated with the signals, so when they're set to danger trains stop & when they clear the trains move away (all DCC controlled by RailMaster & an ELink).

     

     

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