Jim Brook’s Mercury Capsule
Attached are pictures of the Mercury model. I decided to go with Mercury 7 II, the spacecraft that Al Shepard was lobbying to take up after Gordo Cooper’s Faith 7 flight. Because the details were so...
View ArticleOn the Bench 223b: David Merriman’s Von Braun Cargo Rocket part 1
Dennis Rodgick recently challenged me to mate this model rocket nose-cone with a little creativity from my end to produce a large scale model of the Cargo Rocket 3rd stage with attached cargo fairing....
View ArticleAndreas Haase’s Pilgrim One Observer
‘ Here is the Pilgrim one observer, a vintage 1970s model that I built as a boy, and then had so much fun imagining missions while playing with it that the original one was parted out to various kit...
View ArticleAnnette Bannasch’s Apollo Soyuz
Apollo Soyuz is from REVELL that I got a long time ago. After so many years I started again to work on the model kit and here is the result. I painted the Soyuz not like it was actually in orbit but...
View ArticleDavid Hanners’ Columbia
This is the Revell 1/144th scale Shuttle Orbiter kit, built as OV-102 Columbia after its last refit. I made a number of modifications to accurize the kit, and used aftermarket parts and decals from...
View ArticleAndreas Haase’s Space Station
The Space station currently orbiting our blue planet, although not quite as complete as this Revell Germany model. It is also box stock but with custom made decals to mimic the solar panels on the...
View ArticleAnnette Bannasch’s Gemini Spacecraft
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View ArticleAnnette Bannasch’s Shuttle on the Pad
The Shuttle was built from an Airfix kit and the launch tower is a kit produced by Revell. The post Annette Bannasch’s Shuttle on the Pad appeared first on CultTVman Fantastic Modeling.
View ArticleJim Brook’s Apollo 14
This started out as one of the iterations of the old Monogram Apollo 11 Landing kit. I decided to modify it to Al Shepard’s Antares LM (seen in the first image) so I threw away the base and ALSEP...
View ArticleDavid Hanners’ Concept CEV
CEV “Schirra” Scale: 1/32 Scratchbuilt This spacecraft is loosely based on concept drawings of a crew exploration vehicle featured on Lockheed Martin’s CEV website. I figured that since there are...
View ArticleJoel Tavera’s Mars Probe
What a cool Rocket by Lindberg! This nice design needed some illumination and a variation in the build up. The MARS PROBE version with the gantry utilized a clear acrylic box cut down to size and the...
View ArticleJoel Tavera’s Star Probe
The second Lindberg STAR PROBE rocket was built to reflect the box art as much as possible with the exception of the moon like base. Each part was used from the kit with extra care taken for the...
View ArticleNew Mercury Spacecraft kit from Crow’s Nest
This is an all new 1:32 scale kit from Crow’s Nest. It is available in two versions, Freedom 7 with a porthole, and a window version as flown in all the other Mercury missions. The kit is made of...
View ArticleDavid Hanners’ Delta IV
Here are some photos for the “Real Space” category. They are of my 1/96th-scale Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle, scratchbuilt in card. David Hanners The post David Hanners’ Delta IV appeared first on...
View ArticleDennis Severson’s Apollo Recovery
Here is a quickie that the Real Space modelers might find interesting. After finishing the Revell 1/96 Saturn V with the Real Space Block II accurizing kit, I was left with the extra parts I used to...
View ArticleGino Dykstra’s Apollo Astronaut
Here are some picturess I took of the Revell Apollo Astronaut, posed in front of the model box. The kit is more-or-less out of box with the exception of the gold foil covering the leg and the...
View ArticleDavid Hanners’ Gemini Recovery
This is an entirely paper model that I kit-bashed from a couple of the models offered by Delta 7 Studios on its “Project Gemini” CD. The model combines elements of the Gemini 4 model (the interior and...
View ArticleGino Dykstra’s Gemini Kits
This is a couple of variants on the Revell 1/48 Gemini Capsule. The first item is based on a SF movie made in the 60’s, with James Caan attempting to rescue some stranded cosmonauts on the surface of...
View ArticleJeff Brown’s Space Exploration Models
These are photos of me and some of my model work currently on display as part of the “One Small Step” exhibition at the University of Delaware museum gallery in Newark, Delaware. This exhibition,...
View ArticleJoel Tavera’s Pilgrim Observer
This model was featured in the On The Bench section recently. Here are some photos of the completed Pilgrim Observer. I was able to incorporate some of the cool Paragrafix photo etched brass into...
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