Here's a new one I did the past two months. It's Delta7 Gemini model reduced to 50%, so it's about 1/48.
I decided on making the last one, with Buzz Aldrin doing his third EVA of the flight.
For the Agena I used metallic paper and glossy photo paper. I scratch built the garden fences on the engine compartment because I found the original to be too 2D. I used sewing pins for it. In a stroke of luck I also found two decals of US flags exactly the size of the 1/48 versions on the target vehicle. They came from unused 1/144 Revell shuttle decals. Well that's something plastic still is useful for. (-;
The engine compartment originally is silver but because it reflects space I decided to make it gloss black. All in all a very nice build. Good fit, but I don't expect anything else from Dan's models. The entire hull was riveted with a riveting wheel I made from a Dremel saw blade and a large wooden dowel.
The Gemini capsule was great to build. First time I did the interior. Very nice, much detailing and a good tight fit. I made Jim Lovell too, since the hatch would be open and you could look inside. The body is entirely made out of paper. His helmet is a lead weight for fishing purposes. I opened it a little and modelled the lower part to a flat bit. The visor was made from a sample from a LEE gel filter. Glued with Krystal Klear.
The hull of the capsule is treated with an embossing needle to pronounce the rivets a little. Both windows also were cut out and replaced with a little bit of LEE gel filter. I used a dark blue one for Jim's window (to give the interior a little more darkness and give it more of a space feel) and Buzz' open hatch has a very light blue daylight filter as a window. (the reasoning behind it was it's entirely in space and therefore transparent, hey, it sounded logical when I was making them...)
Buzz also was made from paper, using the same technique. I more or less made it up on the fly. estimating proportions and shapes, I folded and crumpled bits of paper to a human-like shape. Using pictures online I tried to reconstruct Buzz' bodypack and find the way his belts run over the suit.
The umbilical is from floral wire, primed and painted with Tamiya Gold Leaf acrylic.
When putting the parts together I realised nothing could be seen of the interior of the docking collar in which I scratch built all kinds of parts to make it more 3D. Oh well. It's there.
The whole shebang was placed on a picture frame with a nice view of Earth underneath. It was a photo I still had laying around of an ancient crater lake somewhere.
Glad to show you more but here's the finished product preceded by a couple of build pictures. (WIP pics lazily made with my smartphone)
I decided on making the last one, with Buzz Aldrin doing his third EVA of the flight.
For the Agena I used metallic paper and glossy photo paper. I scratch built the garden fences on the engine compartment because I found the original to be too 2D. I used sewing pins for it. In a stroke of luck I also found two decals of US flags exactly the size of the 1/48 versions on the target vehicle. They came from unused 1/144 Revell shuttle decals. Well that's something plastic still is useful for. (-;
The engine compartment originally is silver but because it reflects space I decided to make it gloss black. All in all a very nice build. Good fit, but I don't expect anything else from Dan's models. The entire hull was riveted with a riveting wheel I made from a Dremel saw blade and a large wooden dowel.
The Gemini capsule was great to build. First time I did the interior. Very nice, much detailing and a good tight fit. I made Jim Lovell too, since the hatch would be open and you could look inside. The body is entirely made out of paper. His helmet is a lead weight for fishing purposes. I opened it a little and modelled the lower part to a flat bit. The visor was made from a sample from a LEE gel filter. Glued with Krystal Klear.
The hull of the capsule is treated with an embossing needle to pronounce the rivets a little. Both windows also were cut out and replaced with a little bit of LEE gel filter. I used a dark blue one for Jim's window (to give the interior a little more darkness and give it more of a space feel) and Buzz' open hatch has a very light blue daylight filter as a window. (the reasoning behind it was it's entirely in space and therefore transparent, hey, it sounded logical when I was making them...)
Buzz also was made from paper, using the same technique. I more or less made it up on the fly. estimating proportions and shapes, I folded and crumpled bits of paper to a human-like shape. Using pictures online I tried to reconstruct Buzz' bodypack and find the way his belts run over the suit.
The umbilical is from floral wire, primed and painted with Tamiya Gold Leaf acrylic.
When putting the parts together I realised nothing could be seen of the interior of the docking collar in which I scratch built all kinds of parts to make it more 3D. Oh well. It's there.
The whole shebang was placed on a picture frame with a nice view of Earth underneath. It was a photo I still had laying around of an ancient crater lake somewhere.
Glad to show you more but here's the finished product preceded by a couple of build pictures. (WIP pics lazily made with my smartphone)
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