First Moon Landing

[TooOld]

Been taking a break of sorts but I Picked this one up last month .


Revell GmbH reissued this kit a couple of months ago and I wanted to build it for the 50th Anniversary , strangely Revell USA is reissuing it in September .


Assembly is fairly straight forward , although the legs of the Lunar Module are a bit tricky . Very little painting on The Lunar Module except for a spray coat of aluminum , but lots and lots of foil . I used Chrome , Black , and Gold foil . . . enough for dozens of cars !

Here's a few more photos of the finished model , hope you like it !






And here's a photo without the "Moon" light .

[fordrodnkustom]

"Tranquility base here.." Very, very well done Bob! That brings back lots of good memories. I watched the landing live in glorious black and white. It was sort of a big regional as well as national pride for us, being on Long Island, home of Grumman where the LEM was built. Seems like everyone's Dad worked there at the time.

Thanks for sharing.

[TooOld]

Thanks Ron , and it was the same for me . Growing up in the 60's as an Air Force brat we lived at Vandenberg AFB in '62-67 and saw lot's of missile launches ! Moved to Los Angeles in '67 were my Dad was attached to NASA , so the moon landing was a very big deal in my family !

[harron68]

Most excellent!!!! As one who watched the landing on tv, when I finally found a scale model kit, I bought it. It was, I think, a smaller scale one and I never did get to build it. Thanx for your over-the-moon replica. Fine work!