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Here are the photos of my "2001 Discovery" from Lunar Models. While I now consider this to be my scale-modeling
Magnum Opus,
I never planned on buying this kit. Many thanks to my friend Neil Wright for daydreaming about a scratch-built DISCOVERY. Without that thought in the back of my mind, I might have walked by it without a second look. A fateful trip to Placentia, California's "Monsters In Motion" brought me face-to-face with the only kit on the shelf, and the rest is history!
It was probably the Mother of ALL Impulse Buys, but it's one I'll never regret. While I must have spent a couple of hundred bucks on materials and supplies, when averaged over the
2-year span of this project, we're talking mere pennies a day!
Here are the kit pieces. I already assembled the spine segments, and some green putty and primer spots are visible here and
there. The finished kit is still detachable into the three spine sections seen here. The command module required a lot of Dremel work, as it was only semi-hollow.
Starboard bow view. The various shades of gray paneling are hand painted. Sources of paneling information include Piers Bizony's
"2001: Filming The Future", various magazine articles, and of course, the video of the movie itself. While the blue LightSheet is inaccurate (I messed up the white one--don't ask), it provides a nice colorful contrast with the white and gray hull,
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