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Old 10-17-2016, 03:26 PM
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Yes, color me ignorant also. I didn't realize Ash was paying homage to the Day the Earth Stood Still
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Old 10-17-2016, 04:55 PM
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1955)

Greatest sci-fi film of its time.
Greatest sci-fi film of all time.

Will the sci-fi fans of today understand why?
Probably not, without a lot of explaining.

But even if you don't get why it is at the top of the heap,
you'll still find it very entertaining to watch.

If you haven't seen it...and you think yourself a Sci-Fi fan...
you must watch it!

No, you may not think about the recent remake.
That has nothing to do with the original!
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Old 10-18-2016, 04:29 PM
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Quick post -- I've completed everything through Airdave's post #76 and hope to get the powerplant completed tonight if nothing goes too badly pear shaped. Pictures when I get that far.

P.S. There are few people more ignorant of classic films than I am, and even I knew what "Klaatu borata nikto" referred to! Um, perhaps one has to be of "a certain age"?!?
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Last thing to do is assemble and install the optional Umbrella Antenna Dish.

Prepare the two paper parts: the mounting tube and the antenna dish.
Score all the folds.

When cutting out the dish part, you can choose to add some extra paper material
to create an extra joiner section/tab (shown in white on the photo)

Or, you can add a joiner to the rear of the dish during assembly.
Or, you can overlap the last section of the dish to assemble...resulting in a slightly narrower umbrella dish.



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Here is the umbrella Dish folded and ready for assembly.
For this build I just overlapped the last section of the dish.

On an earlier build, I added an additonal overlapping tab when I cut out the part.

Also...roll the mounting tube.



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Grab your wire material for the supporting mast.
I used an unfolded Paperclip.
Roll and glue the mounting tube using this wire, so it fits correctly.

Cut the wire to the desired length.
A top folded section for the dish mounting, and a lower mast section.
Cut the mast section longer to raise the mast to any desired height.

Angle bend the wire as shown.



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Insert the mounting tube into the dish antenna and glue it in place.



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Insert and glue the mast into the predrilled hole in the forward base box.
Angle it in whatever direction you like.



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Slip the dish and mounting tube onto the mast wire.
It won't fall past the bend in the wire, so it doesn't have to be glued.



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For this build I made my wire mast a bit shorter than my first build attempt.
I also experimented with colouring the back side of the Antenna Dish part.

To be honest, I think the white paper backside looks better.



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Old 10-18-2016, 06:12 PM
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I think. Unless Dave finds any more egregious errors.

I had previously printed out a copy on bond paper. Unfortunately, the furshlugginer printer printed an acid green bar right across the dish antenna. Nonetheless, I cut it out and pasted it to the back of the cardstock dish. Used florist wire for the antenna post. Green, but doesn't look too bad to my eye.

The final two images show the Rover on the base that I will use at the IPMC later this month, the theme being "Space, Real and Imagined."

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Old 10-18-2016, 07:43 PM
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Wow Don, that base looks great! I'm looking forward to seeing it soon.

I have the powerplant complete but not mounted. I also made a rather firm adjustment to the wonky wheel, and to my surprise it seems to have worked and all four still sit level. So if all goes well, I'll be wrapping this model up tomorrow.
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Old 10-18-2016, 09:08 PM
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All points taken.

Did ten push ups.
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What?!

Slacker, that might be good enough for the modernized 70's permanent press fatigue days, but the ol'brown shoe did at least 25....

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Mike - You are right that ten aren't many fitness pushups (in the 1970s and today 40-75 pushups were expected of men in their early 20s), but the standard number of punishment pushups was ten during my early years in the Army. The only time I actually DID punishment pushups was in Jump School at Fort Benning in 1962 and I can assure you that I heard "Drop and give me ten, Lieutenant!" many many times, so it seemed an entirely appropriate quip in reference to my egregious error.

Incidentally, the Brown Shoe Army ended in 1958, when the Army switched from brown to black shoes and boots.

Now, back to the Lunar Rover!

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Wow, you all sure are having fun with this build!

Great looking model Don! You must be in pretty good shape by the end of this one, even at 10 pushups per post.....

Just read through the posts start to finish. Once again Dave does a great job with photos and explantions.

Will have to build this one when I have some time.

Thank you for sharing the build thread everyone! Great reading and viewing of photos.

Mike
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Old 10-18-2016, 10:14 PM
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Mike - You are right that ten aren't many fitness pushups (in the 1970s and today 40-75 pushups were expected of men in their early 20s), but the standard number of punishment pushups was ten during my early years in the Army. The only time I actually DID punishment pushups was in Jump School at Fort Benning in 1962 and I can assure you that I heard "Drop and give me ten, Lieutenant!" many many times, so it seemed an entirely appropriate quip in reference to my egregious error.

Incidentally, the Brown Shoe Army ended in 1958, when the Army switched from brown to black shoes and boots.

Now, back to the Lunar Rover!

Don
Yep, Jump school back in '78 sounds the same. Except instead of Lieutenant, it was Private.... How many times did you end up in the "Gig" squad?

BTW the base and photo looks great, from the one angle it looks like he is stepping on the rover for balance.


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