This is cool. For those who build models (guilty), Hasegawa has introduced a 1:48 scale model of the Voyager space probes: http://www.squadron.com/product-p/he54002.htm I'm writing my letter to Santa right now. Wish I had his email address...
It's a great kit. Been out for about a year (saw a few buildups at Wonderfest back in May). Squadron wants too much for it though...it's about $25 or so shipped from Japan. (http://www.hlj.com/product/hsgsw-02 out of stock for a few weeks though). Nice use of photoetch on it as well for the boom. There's been a big resurgence in 'Real Space' models in the past few years, Hasegawa, Dragon, Kotobikuya, and some of the smaller kit makers have come out with some interesting kits. Others that are pretty interesting: http://www.hlj.com/product/hsgsw-02 http://www.hlj.com/product/rev04828 http://www.hlj.com/product/DRA56227 (HLJ's category page: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?rel=nav&GenreCode=Rsc&MacroType=SpaMod) I've ordered plenty from Hobbylink Japan, they have great customer service, and even the slow boat shipping shows up on my doorstep within a few weeks. If you are looking for a source a little closer to home, go to www.starshipmodeler.biz John and Linda run a great shop as well. L8r, Dan On Oct 5, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
This is cool. For those who build models (guilty), Hasegawa has introduced a 1:48 scale model of the Voyager space probes:
http://www.squadron.com/product-p/he54002.htm
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Dan, FYI, the owner of Hobbylink Japan is a very distant relative of mine. We have the same last name and have corresponded. I'd love to build the 1/72 Saturn V. I have two copies of the Revell 1/96. And I still have inbuilt kits of the Revell "History Makers" Apollo ships in 1/48. Fun stuff!
Heh. Scott's a great guy, met him a few times at various events around the country. He helped me replace a kit that got damaged in shipping. I don't build a lot of real space stuff, but I have been working on-and-off on a 1/12 Mercury Capsule. A good friend of mine put his together as a realistic buildup of Friendship 7. He documented it here: http://www.astrazoic.com/Mercury.pdf The 2013 IPMS Nationals are being held just outside of Denver. I've gone to plenty of regionals, and Wonderfest (www.wonderfest.com), but this will be the first Nats I've been to. I'm pretty excited. Dan On Oct 5, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Dan, FYI, the owner of Hobbylink Japan is a very distant relative of mine. We have the same last name and have corresponded.
I'd love to build the 1/72 Saturn V. I have two copies of the Revell 1/96.
And I still have inbuilt kits of the Revell "History Makers" Apollo ships in 1/48.
Fun stuff! _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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