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Topic: Load 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out Diorama
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-16-2010 10:29 AM
   
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
Member Posts: 375
From: Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 06-16-2010 01:36 PM
Pascal, very nice work (as usual).The cheese wedge base that draws your eye towards the figure is a great idea. |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-16-2010 02:11 PM
Is this figure scracth built or modified from a kit? |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-16-2010 02:29 PM
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
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-16-2010 04:04 PM
What is the name of the company that makes the kit? |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-16-2010 04:12 PM
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
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-16-2010 04:14 PM
Ok, thanks. I appreciate it. |
Apollo Redux
Member Posts: 346
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 06-16-2010 07:40 PM
Nice. |
history in miniature
Member Posts: 600
From: Slatington, PA
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 06-17-2010 07:15 AM
Bravo! |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-17-2010 07:50 AM
Thank you people for the compliments!!!! |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-17-2010 11:25 AM
More beautiful work Pascal! Do you have a library of all the Apollo dioramas you have made? |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-17-2010 12:05 PM
Yes typically, the counter is stopped by thirty pieces worldwide... but I have not made one for myself. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 06-17-2010 12:39 PM
Wow, that is stunning!--John |
Retro Rocket
Member Posts: 445
From: Santa Paula, Ca,. USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 06-17-2010 01:42 PM
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
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-17-2010 01:58 PM
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
Editor Posts: 42982
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-17-2010 02:08 PM
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
Member Posts: 375
From: Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 06-17-2010 02:36 PM
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
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 06-17-2010 03:53 PM
The model is absolutely superb. |
Retro Rocket
Member Posts: 445
From: Santa Paula, Ca,. USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 06-17-2010 05:37 PM
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
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-19-2010 11:09 AM
Look what Pascal's figurine witnessed. 
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