Jay These look excellent. You would never guess at their origin. And yes, the polythene that the figures are made of is a pain to work with. No idea why Airfix...
I'll second Mat's comments! Great job, Jay! We concentrate on the equipment so often, but it's the figures that add that element of reality to it all! Randy...
Beautiful work Jay! Thanks for sharing. Might I suggest a light coat of clear flat to take the sheen off of the suits? Linden ... But I wasn't too happy with...
This for all you "old-timers" (don't take offense; I'm one, too!). I need matches to currently available paint (enamel preferred) for the following old Pactra...
Excellent job, Jay. Those guys look ready to fly! ;-) You have a lot of detail in there. Keep up the good work (and keep taking pics for us.) Kev K ~ ~ ~ ... ...
Thanks guys. BTW, I forgot to mention that the reason for the glossy sheen is these figs did get gloss coated so that when I gave them a light wash of Tamiya...
Are there any good detailed photos on the web of the original Revell Space Station? Matt's first book has a nice shot of Ron's display model but I'm looking...
... Matt - I'm wrapping mine up now (in the next few days - the workshop is at a "nice" 85º with a temperature of 96º outside - so it might be a bit longer...
In message <f8sg9f+4nd0@eGroups.com>, John P. Braungart <braungart@...> writes ... There's another photo of the Space Station on my Web Site. These are...
In message <c28.196c7525.33e132be@...>, JMChladek@... writes [snip] ... All Airfix figure sets were originally listed as HO-OO, which admittedly is a...
... set ... admittedly ... Airfix ... I always had the impression "HO" referred to the actual gauge of the model track, not so much the model scale - British...
Thanks to John and Mat. I know we all can't wait to see John's completed model. Interesting tidbit about the third figure. I wonder how many models were built...
In message <f8snmr+26j9@eGroups.com>, dinkystreet <phil@...> writes ... Hmm, I was afraid someone was going to bring up the knotty problem of railway...
Legend has it that 1:35 came from Japanese kit companies in the 1960s deciding that armor scale would be such that a human figure was 2 inches tall. Given the...
"make sense in the hobby" says the man who comes from a country where one foot might have been the length of the king's foot and one yard was the distance...
Light is speed. Lightyears is distance. I've tried to convert to the "New York Minute" but it hasn't been very successful. Glenn www.realspacemodels.com ... ...
I consider myself corrected/re-educated. :) I don't know about New York Minutes but I know in the case of 1/32 LM's "Shipping Soon" in the Queen's English...
New photos now showing in "PL's Space Model Photos Here". These are of the Dragon 1/6 Apollo astronaut I worked on a few years ago. Generally the suit is...
No thanks James. I'm toying with doing something from scratch along the same lines (1950's Speculative) and wanted some ideas. There are some great shots on...
Just created a folder called "Updated ISS model - August 07" with some photos of the latest updates to the on-going ISS kit. The updates represent those...
WOW Keith, I am so impressed. But I have been since I saw your Skylab on Sven's site in the last Millenium. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Me too! Who needs the real thing when you can build modesl as good as these? (just kidding!). Incredible job! It also gives a great feel for scale - those...
A while back, someone was kind enough to send me a copy of the instructions. I always thought that a smaller scratch built version of this model would be kinda...
I forgot to mention that Sven has a pdf of the instructions, the "manual" and I think a full-sized JPG of the decals on his website. www.Ninfinger.org ... ...
