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July 20, 2005
Finally, a Bit More Progress on the Model
What with preparing to move, moving, and preparing to relocate overseas, there hasn’t been a lot of time to devote to quiet pursuits like model building these past few months. This are, for the moment at least, reasonably well settled. The offspring has been picking up the partially competed Mercury-Atlas model and admiring it, probably wondering when Dad’s likely to get around to finishing it. So, while I was playing with him last night, we gathered up the booster so far and the remaining parts sheets, collected some scissors, glue, and a toothpick and sat down at the kitchen table to make some more minor progress.
The results shown here include the construction and attachment of the LOX pipe and verniers. My LOX pipe looks like somebody took a ball-peen hammer to it with a will. The fairly heavy weight paper I printed the pattern out on doesn’t lend itself well to being rolled up into a tube that narrow. The Atlas portion of the assembly is taking shape. All that’s left to the booster are the engine bells. Then the Mercury capsule and we’re done.
Filed under Harmless Fun, Scale Modeling, and Paper Models.
Posted by eric at July 20, 2005 01:25 PM