Mercury 9

[Grendels]

My next entry:



It is in the diorama category......

 

[Eastrock]

Cool, reserve a seat for me, John!!! you cut off the Big G head!!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

OH MAN!!!! That was a kit I wanted to enter.

 

[Glorfindel]

This should be fun. Looking forward to it.

 

[ShutterAce]

Cool!

 

[Solander]

Cool! Enjoy this design
One small question, G:
would the giant lizard join this diorama also, or it just came into the shot to,so tosay, whatch at it's this year successor?

 

[Igard]

Interesting Grendels. Interesting indeed. Can't wait to see what you do here.

 

[Grendels]

OH MAN!!!! That was a kit I wanted to enter.

Sorry Mike, you can still enter it!

Here are the other entries I considered:
1/72 hind
Graf Zeppelin
castle neuschwanstein
1/500 space battle ship Yamato
Minions from Despicable me
1/72 LVT-(A)1

If I can finish up my two entries, the LVT might still get built up. This one just took the top of the list.

Cool! Enjoy this design
One small question, G:
would the giant lizard join this diorama also, or it just came into the shot to,so tosay, whatch at it's this year successor?

All will be reveled in the next video. For this build I think I am going to try and do photo updates as well.

 

[Quaralane]

Should be an interesting build, John.
I look forward to seeing it

 

[Fruit]

Impressive, impressive... raising the bar I see!

Now when you mentioned the "Hind" you do mean the Mi-24 Hind right? Yes? No?

 

[Grendels]

Thanks Q

Fruit: Yes of course Mi-24E specifically. It is the 1/72 Zvezda kit

Well I promised photo updates as well as a video. No work done yet. My job is keeping me really busy. So photos first then video.

I will start with the directions:

And now for the sprue:


In the first photo there are three of the sprue on the left

And now for the aftermarket. First up, the ground crew.

Lots of photoetch goodness!

And a detail kit:

And the YouTube video review:

Mercury 9: Contest entry number 2

 

[Eastrock]

that's a lot PE work, John!!! looking forward with the progress. ;D

 

[spud]

i knew you had somthing big planned or would that be Huge..

 

[Solander]

5 simple words:
This_is_gonna_be_AWESOME!!
The diorama category is becoming pretty much a challenge I see

 

[hilld]

Awesome ideas Grendels. I remember those movies too. Your vision is amazing. Lighting the copters...wow.

 

[Grendels]

Thanks all, I hope to get started on it tonight.

My big problem is the size of the base. I need to get that figured out pretty quickly. Mainly because that is where most of the work is going to be done. But in order to figure that out, I need to dry fit together all the parts. So tonight is a tape up of the major parts.

Then I can get to planning the lighting.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Great stuff G, good luck mate.

 

[Igard]

Liking the idea! Should be lots of fun and I think you're working with a better model kit than the Godzilla dio of last year. Let's hope there's not as much seam filling for you to do this time around.

 

[Grendels]

Great stuff G, good luck mate.

Thanks!

Liking the idea! Should be lots of fun and I think you're working with a better model kit than the Godzilla dio of last year. Let's hope there's not as much seam filling for you to do this time around.

That is what killed me last year, the seams on King Gidorah. I shouldn't have anything like that this time around. It should be a nice enjoyable build.

 

[fumblethumbs]

Very cool project G! I'll be checking in on this one