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thank you.

I believe Jon received a cease and desist order since MObius/Atlantis was supposed to be developing a 1/32 scale Spindrift. No one's heard anything since the announcement over a year ago.

send me a PM. I believe I scanned the decal before I used it - just in case

@@lewilsonsmessage sent, thanks!

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Thank you, this was one of my favorite shows - never saw it originally aired, but watched reruns as a kid.

Thank you, I think ultimately I'll get around to building the 8 window movie version. Right now, I've got so many other kits I want to build.

I know, Right. Seems like it went down that typical Irwin Allen monster of the week sitcom. Thanks You.

I learned a lot from you, watching your channel. Thank you!

The 1/25 scale figures fit a bit better than the 1/24 scale figure. So I'm leaning more towards that. I have a Lunar Models 1/35 scale which is much smaller, I show a comparison in the first video I posted. The LoG group I joined on face book is saying Mobius is putting out a 20" kit sometime end of the year that is supposed to be pretty detailed. I'd heard its in the 1/32 scale which fits with the flying sub and proteus models they put out years ago. Other than that, I haven't heard anything official.

Thank you, Even with the mini belt sander, I still needed to get in there with some 80 grit and sanding block making some corrected contours - I know it looks rough. I hate sanding resin, almost need a full moon suit to protect yourself as that stuff makes me itchy.

There is not a whole lot of reference photos from the era. I had watch the complete series on DVD and made some notes on the blueprints. Colors are a problem - the show interior is like a chameleon.

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When I was building my kit, there were 6 or 7 kits for sale on Ebay. The gentleman I purchased the kit from had 9 kits at the time - two of which I had purchased at the time. He explained that the vacuum formed kits were made from one of two fiberglass models that someone had made. They took one of those models and cut it up to make the vacuum form pattern. I am making the assumption that he was one of the two guys who made the vacuum formed kits as he seemed to know a lot of the behind the scenes information about the original fiberglass model as well as the guy that made the original fiberglass Models. My understanding now is that there is 3D print or files of this subject in 1:350 or what ever size you choose to make it. if you do a search of You tube there is one of the guys I follow who is building one. I have no idea where he got it though.

This design is from the AMT kit the Lief Ericsson. The mother ship had a small scout ship in the landing bay, fantastic plastic just made a larger version of it

I know the Lief Ericsson was the first Viking ship to reach America. But other than that, it's a mystery. Can't think of a film or TV show with a ship called that.?@@lewilsons

There was no TV show that debuted this ship, it was a concept design by the same guy who designed the Star trek Enterprise and the Klingon battle cruiser.

@@lewilsons Ahh, those famous NCC1701 Jefferies tubes?

@@mrwoodandmrtin Matt Jeffries was the designer of the ships

I built that Enterprise several years ago, I have only been doing video logs since the other sites I was posting to folded. I have been building and posting to forums since 2013. I finally got tired of posting and losing work.

Lunar models, to my knowledge is no longer in business. One of the founders went on to form Larson designs and somehow I think the Lunar model group went on to have an influence with Polar lights - Mobius. There is a lot of photo etch out there to compliment the models you mentioned.

Thank you, for the information. I'll try to look into these sources. I really want to build a 'hero' model Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper.

Thank you.

I believe the same guy designed both ships, the Spindrift is by far my favorite. The J2 is my second favorite.

What do you expect from Irwin Allen?

Consider it an upside down Kelvin with extra sensor probes. A Starship dedicated for nothing but Star mapping.

I went with Krylon Jade. Pistachio was a little too light a green.

Oh sweet, definitely like to see more builds of this. as for the figures, I bought them for other projects and got them off ebay. They are either a mix of 1/32 - 1/35 scale and for the life of me I don't remember what scale the box said. Preiser sounds familiar as to the company that made them. I just have them all in a plastic bag now. If I remember correctly, you get something like 10 -15 figures in various poses and clothing styles in the set. They are much cheaper than the Land of the Giants figures on ebay. The guy's nuts for wanting over $100 for the LoG set and they don't look all that good in my opinion. If you google or 1/32 or 1/35 scale figures they do come up in the search. You can do some creative carving with a dremel on the figures to shape some aspects of the clothing to conform the appearance to what you want. That's all I had done for the projects I used them on. I used these figures for the TOS Shuttle and the Lost in space Space Pod. They are close enough in size to get the point across.

No, no model work in the Kitchen, the finished kits were just placed on the kitchen island to take the video after the Lunar models completion. It was either that or get down on the floor and take the video. The submarines and their bases are so big and take up a lot of space, combined they wouldn't have fit on my work bench. My Mobius Sub resides on the top of a 125 gal. fish tank, the Lunar models Sub that I built for my friend has his Sub sitting on credenza in his living room. They display nicely....Thanks for watching.

There were a couple of large models before the mobius, Lunar models was the biggest at the time, the other was monsters in motion resin kit which was smaller - kinda in between the Lunar models and the old Aurora kit. The Mobius is my favorite. Thanks for watching.

This ship has always been a favorite of mine. I'm about to finish up with the cockpit, still have more work to do. thanks for watching.