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| Lunik |
Being sat at home does have its drawbacks, but also the advantage of being able to complete some of the little side projects that I never seem to get around to, such as my ongoing fleet of mock satellites.
The latest little model is inspired by a recent purchase I made on ebay, currently in postal hell, but also by the Brooke Bond Race into Space cards. After looking at them again for reference on the Early Bird satellite, I recalled another memorable model that I could make quite simply with a leftover Xmas bauble, the Soviet moon Probe, Luna 2.
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| Early Bird |
So after hastily building a small Early Bird out of a plastic tube and some straight pins, I raided the bits box and very soon had a passable model of Lunik too! Of course, once I had the superglue and bits on the go, I had to see what else I could fabricate and soon I had the Navigator Deep Space Probe made from a torch reflector, a bubble wand an handful of kit parts. Unfortunately, Navigator isn't quite complete, as the superglue dried up before I could finish!
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| Navigator Deep Space Probe |
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| Model of Soviet Luna 1 probe |
The fascination for me is with the industrial look of the early probes, especially the soviet era ones, which look like they have been made from leftovers in a boiler factory. This has the advantage of allowing me to put together something which retains the overall 'look' of the actual model, without having to resort to exhaustive detailing.
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| Probing the Secrets |
Its just as well I wasn't going for absolute accuracy as after I did a couple of test shots of my Lunik, I realised the smooth chrome finish of the bauble also caught a reflection of me, the doorway and the mancave!
These are great. I am a fan of the Race Into Space cards too.
ReplyDeleteNice model! The detailing looks really good and only an expert would question it's accuracy, which is the essence of movie model making!
ReplyDeleteYeah, those chrome finishes can be a real bug bear when it comes to photography! I was making a model for a SF novel cover shot and I was using one of those Xmas baubles too. I'd carefully scribed lines on the surface, glued in a torch reflector for the engine and very carefully scratched the chrome finish with steel wool to give it scale.
All that remained was to climb up onto my roof and shoot it against a natural sky...
Needless to say the photo included me, the camera and the entire suburb of Linden reflected in its lower half!
It took a LOT of Photoshop work to fix it...
Ha ha - thought you were going to say the whole lot had come down off the roof! Do show us Looey!
DeleteI thought the sweet cards were your photos Wote! Your models look the same! Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteThose are some excellent builds Wotan!
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