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apolloprojeckt | This time I have make a new Apollo diorama, not big, but very fine. The idea is from Alan Bean's painting "Load 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out." How an astronaut carries a ALSEP... Enjoy the photos: For more photos here's a link... |
Norman.King | Pascal, very nice work (as usual). The cheese wedge base that draws your eye towards the figure is a great idea. |
alanh_7 | Is this figure scracth built or modified from a kit? |
apolloprojeckt | The astronaut is a resin kit scale 1/16, but in a other pose, the visor is real 24 karat gold with mirror effect, the lunar surface on the wooden base is real fine dust lava sand, the ALSEP and brass little camera are both scratch. |
alanh_7 | What is the name of the company that makes the kit? |
apolloprojeckt | There is no company, they are copies of the Reheat Alan Shepard golf shot version... and will be sold on eBay by a Chinese seller. I believe $30 dollars... |
alanh_7 | Ok, thanks. I appreciate it. |
Apollo Redux | Nice. |
history in miniature | Bravo! |
apolloprojeckt | Thank you people for the compliments!!!! |
garymilgrom | More beautiful work Pascal! Do you have a library of all the Apollo dioramas you have made? |
apolloprojeckt | Yes typically, the counter is stopped by thirty pieces worldwide... but I have not made one for myself. |
sts205cdr | Wow, that is stunning! --John |
Retro Rocket | Apparently this model is a Chinese recast of an American artist's work and it's causing quite an uproar at the Space Modelers Group on Yahoo. Illegal Chinese knock-offs can kill the small garage kit companies that originally produce them here in the US. I read it was reported to eBay and removed from the site. |
apolloprojeckt | I don't now how from you got this info, but Reheat is from a company in the UK, and I believe they has sold the casting form to China and also the LRV scale 1/32... Otherwise they sell not so much, and still |
Robert Pearlman | I also saw the discussion on the Yahoo modelers group and I believe the confusion here is that two different (if not more) kits and kit manufacturers were being discussed at the same time. The kit said to be pulled off eBay and the Reheat re-cast were different. |
Norman.King | Sometimes people are a little too quick with accusations before finding out the facts. I prefer to comment on the quality of the piece which is superb. |
Gilbert | The model is absolutely superb. |
Retro Rocket | Don't shoot the messenger, I was passing on the opinions of the SM Group. The diorama along with his other work is fantastic. Making a living doing "garage kits" is pretty tough, that's why I stay away from it and pursued Gub'ment work. I'd rather build one $5,000 model than 100 $50 models. Competing with China is pretty impossible especially when you see how they do it. I pictured automated assembly lines with complicated pad printing machines that make all those models have so much fine detail and decals, etc. Take for example Bandai's Saturn V which is produced by Merit for Bandai. Or here's a specific example of JSI's 1/18th F-14 Tomcat being assembled. It's a huge kit with tons of detail... How do they do it? Let's see... Hmmm... kinda takes the fun outta having a great model when seeing how it's actually produced. |
Philip | Look what Pascal's figurine witnessed.
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