Lunar Surveyor

**hueydriver** · #1 08-25-2016, 09:00 AM

My rendition of Ton Noteboom's Lunar Surveyor

**Vermin_King** · #2 08-25-2016, 09:04 AM

Wow. Very nice job on that one. What material did you use for your base?

**umtutsut** · #3 08-25-2016, 09:10 AM

Most excellent!

Les

**hueydriver** · #4 08-25-2016, 09:11 AM

Fine ballast for model railroads from Woodland Scenics applied over plaster of paris. Sprayed it with diluted white glue on a cheap pine base and airbrushed it with a grey/burnt umber mixture of water based paint. The mini rocks are from the garden :-)

**milenio3** · #5 08-25-2016, 09:20 AM

Really appealing model!

I went a do a little research on this, and found that there were 7 missions, and even one of them was reached by Apollo 12 astronauts, and that parts of the Surveyor is at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Thanks for sharing!

**Swampfox** · #6 08-25-2016, 10:02 AM

Nice build, I've seen this kit and have it in my stash.

I worked on the actual Surveyor missions in the '60s for the US Geological Survey, and we had a 1:4 working scale model of Surveyor in our lab that we used to position for locating fake "moon rocks" for studies that were being done at each landing sites.

As I recall, only 5 of the 7 landings were successful, the other two cashed. I'm afraid my attempt at building this model would look like one of the crashed ones.

Again, nice job,

Swampfox

**Mechanic** · #7 08-25-2016, 05:57 PM

Very nice!

**dhanners** · #8 08-25-2016, 09:15 PM

Excellent job!

**milenio3** · #9 08-31-2016, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swampfox

I worked on the actual Surveyor missions in the '60s for the US Geological Survey, and we had a 1:4 working scale model of Surveyor in our lab that we used to position for locating fake "moon rocks" for studies that were being done at each landing sites.

Swampfox

Hijacking the thread: Hey Swampfox, do you happen to have any photo of your work's area with it?

Amazing to meet people who were in front of the actual subjects of our passion.

**Swampfox** · #10 08-31-2016, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by milenio3

Hijacking the thread: Hey Swampfox, do you happen to have any photo of your work's area with it?

Amazing to meet people who were in front of the actual subjects of our passion.

yes I do some where, you have to realize that was back 50 years back. let me look around little bit and I'll send them to you so we don't tick the sensitive people in the group. PM me your private email.

SFX