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Topic: Pascal Hecker's space models (2010-2021)
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KSCartist
Member Posts: 3079
From: Titusville, FL
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 03-31-2012 06:27 PM
   
Well Ed it's only fair your paint Pascal into your next piece. Beautiful work Pascal - a perfect tribute for our friend Ed. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 04-24-2012 05:11 PM
This time something new, multiple products from a real space model company from Netherlands, the lab racks are made by them.I bought only a simple resin figure (female), and change her to a astronaut in ISS Columbus researcher, who is in a medical experiment and suspended state in the space. The hair of this lady is doing it naturally.    
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 04-24-2012 05:14 PM
 
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 05-01-2012 07:28 AM
After the Columbus diorama, I have ready my second copper silver Saturn V F-1 1/20 engine. The kit is from Accurate Models. This second model in metal version has a copper layer then two layers of real silver. The carrier is also from copper. This time I have given the engine a red cover blanket on one side. The rest has paint details and place on a nice base. To let plate such engine model is extreme exspensive related of the silver and copper price. But the result is nice.   
 
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 05-01-2012 07:30 AM
 
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garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2132
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-01-2012 09:04 AM
Pascal the Columbus researcher captures the feeling of weightlessness very well.And the F1 engine is simply gorgeous. Well done and congratulations! |
Constellation One
Member Posts: 119
From: Lorain, Ohio, USA
Registered: Aug 2008
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posted 05-01-2012 10:42 AM
Pascal, I absolutely love the rack models!Would it be possible for you to tell me where I may purchase them? |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 05-14-2012 05:22 AM
The warm days are coming, this time a cool diorama, theme: "So cold as ice."Some companies have left over satellites that they destroy during reentry, then I try to give the item a second life but with a theme around it. As an example, the ESA satellite CRYOSAT, the satellite that inspected the ice thickness in the polar caps, a little water under with real pieces of crystal glass and we have a refreshing new diorama.    
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garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2132
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-14-2012 07:18 AM
"A refreshing new diorama" captures your spirit as well as your work. Another kudos my friend!Question - are the glass blocks held in place so they don't move around? Thank you. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 05-14-2012 07:28 AM
Thanks. No it's now one big piece of glass. I have used realistic water from woodland, after few days it's so hard as a rock. |
the clocks running
Member Posts: 382
From: Rochester, NY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 05-14-2012 02:06 PM
Another beautiful model Pascal. Great job! |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-27-2012 01:38 PM
Last weeks, I was very busy, a few new dioramas are coming, one shuttle diorama, three Apollo astronaut dioramas. One of the three of the Apollo dioramas will be special. I want to make an Apollo 12 theme with a Hasselblad 500EL. First I have to search for one but this camera but new or used extreme expensive. Thus I have try to make it myself. I had a lot of pieces left over, styreen parts, and after eight hours a scale 1/2 Hasselblad with Alan Bean self-timer. This is very fun to do, it's not complete ready and the theme for the total diorama i still thinking about that.    
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-27-2012 01:40 PM
   
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Norman.King
Member Posts: 403
From: Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 06-27-2012 02:25 PM
That camera looks great. I can't wait to see what you do with it in the final diorama. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3047
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-27-2012 06:49 PM
Wow great build. It would look great on our full size astro in the entance way in our house! |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-28-2012 01:30 AM
Does it work! It looks so good, so it must work! Another professional job, well done Pascal.
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cycleroadie
Member Posts: 454
From: Apalachin, NY USA
Registered: May 2011
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posted 06-28-2012 04:06 AM
Pascal, you've got mad skills, period. Wow! |
the clocks running
Member Posts: 382
From: Rochester, NY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 06-28-2012 05:05 AM
Awesome Hasseblad Pascal! |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-28-2012 06:26 AM
Thanks people!!!!!!!!!! |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2132
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-28-2012 06:26 AM
Beautiful Pascal (of course). Is it 1/2 scale or full scale? |
history in miniature
Member Posts: 644
From: Slatington, PA
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 06-28-2012 07:07 AM
Beautifully done Pascal. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1260
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 06-28-2012 09:18 AM
This entire thread just blows my mind! Amazing stuff! |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-28-2012 09:19 AM
Thanks Gary and Steve! Gary it's a 1/2, it seems what I have read that this brand camera is a Rolls Royce under the cameras and has NASA also asking a lot of camera companies a test model so as by the moonwatch Omega? Or did buy a astronaut it in a photo shop? |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2132
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-28-2012 10:20 AM
Pascal you are correct that in the 1960's and even to this day the Hasselblad camera is considered one of the very finest photographic instruments. It was certainly chosen by NASA for its excellent quality, capabilities and versatility; and was not just picked by an astronaut. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-28-2012 05:15 PM
First Apollo diorama of three is ready, theme from Alan Bean: Lunar High Five Not so easy this one, I have try the keep them above the lunar surface by one connect by hand to hand. But result is fine for me.   
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-29-2012 05:54 PM
Ready today number two, also out of Alan Bean's painting series, I like this one: "The Fantasy" - Conrad, Gordon, and Bean (1992). 
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the clocks running
Member Posts: 382
From: Rochester, NY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 06-29-2012 09:33 PM
Beautiful job Pascal.Alan Bean's paintings come to life! |
cassini
New Member Posts: 5
From: Bedford, England
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 03:36 AM
Fantastic dioramas.I hope the astronauts are your own creations and not recasts of the EVA or Reheat creations. Recasting has caused many problems for small producers of models in all genres not only the space community. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-30-2012 04:06 AM
Thanks Cassini. I find it remarkable that you get to your first topic I just try to explain what can and can not! Let me explain this, Reheat and EVA models are out of the business. I bought the real figure Reheat, can I make for myself many copies.But the copies may not sell them as a kit. But a lot of people do that, Japan, China, Germany, USA, UK, name them. I have here laying a bunch of the real one, but it's pity the the owner of Reheat and EVA models not produce them more. A restart is a golden business. |
cassini
New Member Posts: 5
From: Bedford, England
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 05:30 AM
Just because a company is not currently in business does not mean that copies can be made and distributed.As for changing a duplicate copy form from a kit to a model, Realspace, New Ware and other such companies would be out of business if others did this.
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apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-30-2012 05:44 AM
Yes, you have right in a kit unbuild version. |
the clocks running
Member Posts: 382
From: Rochester, NY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 06:03 AM
I used to own a Hasselbald 500CM camera with a Carl Zeiss 80mm Planar lense and it was an amazing tool. The Carl Zeiss lenses that Hasselblad used were incredibly sharp and all of the photographs that the Apollo moonwalkers took were with Hasselblad cameras and Zeiss lenses. I believe that it may have been Wally Schirra who introduced NASA to the Hasselblad/Zeiss products. Nikon is currently the official supplier of photograhic products to NASA and the US space program. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2132
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-30-2012 07:29 AM
I love The Fantasy. Have you shown this to Bean or Gordon? It really is cool to see Bean's paintings in 3D. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-30-2012 07:35 AM
Thanks Gary, yes I have send the photos to Alan Bean. He wrote me this morning: Both are great. Amazing really. My painting is going well. I have ask him of he have a idea for the Hasselblad diorama, the astronauts than what they are doing around the camera. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1552
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 06-30-2012 08:55 AM
I was this morning busy with something new. Some people know this new kit.I had my flat storage room I have laying a old ceiling light, this parabolic protective glass can be used for a beautiful not discovered planet maybe billions of miles away in the future. I have make clean the glass and painting it with ecoline glass paint in style a cloudy planet, the trick is water mixing with car clearcoat paint mixing shaft is oil on water, all the colors give strange effect in aqueous cloud affect. Later I buy a black base for on the wall make a light in it (little one) place the glass planet and the position of the probe for the planet and you have a new wall diorama with ambient light.  End result will come later. |
Norman.King
Member Posts: 403
From: Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 06-30-2012 01:22 PM
Pascal, you've done a superb job of bringing Alan Beans paintings to life, wonderful.I'm surprised at the reprimand you received from a new cS member for using recast OOP kits. I'm not going to open a can-of-worms again on this thorny issue, but I for one would have a massive hole in my collection if these kits weren't being made available again after the companies that made them originally stopped trading years ago. |
cassini
New Member Posts: 5
From: Bedford, England
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 02:04 PM
Just because recasting other peoples models even if out of production fills a collection it doesn't make it right.Recasting without permission is plagiarism and I believe it should be seen in the same light as artworks, literature, music etc. Recasting has caused a number of cottage industry producers to cease production especially in the science fiction field and stifles new low volume products. |
Norman.King
Member Posts: 403
From: Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Registered: Feb 2010
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posted 06-30-2012 02:41 PM
How can permission to copy be sought from a source that no longer exists?I believe you are confusing recasts of OOP kits from existing supplier ranges (i.e New Ware) which would be despicable with those that have simply disappeared. I think it's wonderful that others can continue to enjoy the work of people like Chris Chulamanis of EVA models who sadly passed away without (to the best of my knowledge) passing on his business (and kit molds) to someone else. |
cassini
New Member Posts: 5
From: Bedford, England
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 03:40 PM
I fully appreciate a company may have been out of business for a number of years the principle is not greatly different. Even if permission cannot be obtained it does not give free reign to copy others work. Somebody will almost certainly have rights to the work.In most cases if one REALLY wanted to make the effort, contact could be made with next of kin or rightful owner of the molds, few make the effort. If contact cannot be made you don't have an automatic right to pirate copy. Most kits can be obtained if somewhat expensive on eBay. |
the clocks running
Member Posts: 382
From: Rochester, NY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 06-30-2012 08:15 PM
Pascal, How do you create these amazing models so fast? It is astonishing to me. |
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