I built this kit several years ago, and it has won a few prizes at scale model contests. Uhu02's original kit is in 1/48 scale. I decided that a larger scale would be easier to build, so I enlarged it to 1/35 scale, which makes the model about 8½ inches tall, with a landing gear that spans 12½ inches. It is made entirely of paper except for main landing gear struts, which are wrapped around steel wire.
The kit is a free download. The PDFs and detailed construction photos are here.
Photographing the model for submission to Fine Scale Modeler magazine, I discovered that part of the landing gear was collapsing. I spent an evening repairing and reinforcing the supporting struts with extra layers and liberal application of ACC. Paper brushed with thin ACC takes on the rigidity of plastic.
1 comment:
Hello David,
Nice model of the LEM module. But when I download part '1' I just get the first page with the numbers 1 till 8. The other 2 pages don't download, witch means that ik don't get e.g. the page with number 12 on it.
Do you know this issue?
Greetings from the Netherlands
Henk Muller
please respond on: henk.muller58@hotmail.com
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