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| This is my first ever garage kit built in 1986. I
tore it open in 1988 when I built the first Lunar Models interior
kit. It is just as well the interior is hard to see, for I did a
really bad job on it, partly because of my lack of experience and because
the first version of Lunar's interior kit just basically sucked. |
In 1990, I decided to give Lunar another go,
and bought this 16" Jupiter and built it with the legs down. It
has no interior. This kit was a bit easier to build, mainly because
the hulls were pre-cut. |
I bought this 16.5" Jupiter kit for the
interior kit you can see on the Accessories page. But, after I
finished the second version of Lunar's interior kit, it needed to be seen,
not locked up in the hull. I haven't finished this one because I'm
waiting on the fusion core light kit to arrive (which means I have to
order it...). |
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| This is the Polar Lights kit awaiting for me to finish
painting the interior. I bought the replacement legs and seats, plus
I got both light kits for the dome and the fusion core. |
I ran across the LISFAN club and decided to try out the
two Jupiter 2 kits they offered back in the mid-1990's. This 6-inch
version lacks a lot of detail, but was easy to build. I let my
oldest son, 8 years old at the time, paint it. |
Here's the Grand-daddy of them all, my 24" Jupiter 2
from Lunar. You'll see on the construction page that I'm doing a
scratch built interior. Way too ambitious for someone of my talents! |
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| This is the Masudaya 18" robot kit. I replaced
the cheap Japanese voice box with custom circuitry that plays a 20 second
clip of the First Season theme with some of the Robot's famous lines mixed
in. I spent more time building the circuit than I did on the kit. |
What a great kit. Easy and fun to build, plus it
portraits Doctor Smith the way I liked him, ready to kill to get his
way. The early TV Smith is some terrific acting. |
Anyone alive in the late 1960's who owned an original
Aurora Robot kit had to have this one from Polar Lights. I found the
version with the Doctor Smith kit easier to build and paint, and tad more
accurate. |
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| The original Aurora version of this kit was my very
first model I ever built in 1967. That kit started a life-long
obsession with model building. I put "grass" on the base
from model train set-ups to give the model some texture. It just
took up a lot of time and made it hard to paint! I even considered
applying hair to the Cyclops itself, but that was a bit much. |
Of course, I had to build this kit, since I never had one
back in the 1960's. I threw this together and painted it in one
afternoon, and it looks just as good as the first version, which I took
the time to fill all the seams on the characters and Cyclops. |
I know, this isn't from Lost In Space, but Wallace and
Gromit did go to the moon and back. This is the Airfix kit I ordered
from Comet Miniatures in England. A really fun kit, and it included
the paint and glue! I put Gromit's arm up just to be different. |
