I’ve made some progress on the Descent stage of Snoopy. The landing radar is installed. It almost disappears in the shine of the foiled underside.
I’ve applied the foil details on the top and sides of the Descent stage. I used four colors of foil. Bare-metal foil Bright Aluminum, Gold, Yellow Gold, and Dark Orange. The Aluminum and Gold are the bare colors of the foil. The Yellow Gold is the Bright Aluminum painted with a couple of coats of Tamiya Transparent Yellow. The Dark Orange is the Gold foil painted with three coats of Tamiya Transparent Orange and one coat of Tamiya Transparent Red. I think they came out OK.
Here are the top and four sides.
I painted the primary struts with Alclad Chrome. Then I painted the section with no molded kapton with Tamiya Metalic Gray. The ladder was painted Tamiya Flat Aluminum.
The secondary struts are painted with Alclad Chrome. Then the large diameter sections were painted Tamiya Flat Gray. The tops of some of the braces were painted Vallejo Black. The two on the left are showing the top side of the braces and the right two show the bottom.
The landing pads were painted Tamiya Flat Gray.
The lower outriggers were painted Alclad Chrome and then painted with a couple of coats of Tamiya Transparent Orange.
The nozzle is painted with two shades of gray. The porch painted a custom mix to get a shade of tan that I’m happy with.
I next used CA to glue the lower outriggers to the Descent Stage body and upper outrigger. When those cured I used CA to attach the landing radar heat shield and then the Descent Stage engine nozzle. While that was curing I attached the primary struts to the landing pads. Once those were cured I again used CA to attach the primary struts to the outriggers and secondary struts. Here are a couple of photos of the complete Descent Stage. I have a few minor paint touch ups to do, but it is completely assembled.
That’s it for now. Now it’s time to get the parts all together and move on the the Ascent Stage.
Thanks for looking.
Luhman-ations 