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ADDING DETAILS 1 I’m going to do additional greebling as I go because that will be easier for certain areas. I added the panel that connects the top of the command module to the top of the fuselage. The two circle areas on the studio model look like small take-up reels (for those of you old...

At assembly, I couldn’t find any pics that clearly showed all the way around the pieces that connect the panels to the hull (1 piece or 2?, short end structure?), so I had to make my own call on some of this construction. I settled on 1 base for each panel. The piece glued to the bottom of the...

Next I made the 4 short ends. They all have 5 recessed holes. Again, I used my metal pick to punch out the holes in the top part. I used my X-acto to shave off the raised areas on the backs so the new recessed backs would sit flush. These got glued to the new backs and trimmed to fit. The long...

SOLAR PANELS The old solar panel part is just a flat piece of paper with no sides. I made mine from scratch starting with redrawing the top panels and gluing the new parts to 1mm chipboard. I printed out extra panels, glued them to the same 1mm chipboard, cut out the black rectangles and edge...

Every change or add on I’ve made has been based off the pictures I’ve found of the studio model. I’ve been lucky that there are some really good ones out there, but I’ve still had to contend with not being able to see some details clearly or not at all. That’s okay because I’m not trying for...

That is some great detail work Silveroxide. Congrats on a great one-of-a-kind dio.:Bravo:

Next up was adding the raised details. This was straightforward with a few exceptions. For the small orange stripes I made some that were longer than needed. I glued one end toward the top where you can see it then wrapped it around to where it ended at the seam. The longer piece let me trim the...

I stared by cutting off the rear cones where the exhaust mounts. I cut off the tabs, made a new one for the sides and glued it from behind. I curled and glued the sides and glued the flat ends flush. There are some tiny gaps on the ends, but I believe the exhaust will help hide this. Next I...

BOOSTERS Like the other parts, the boosters got a complete repaint. Also like the other parts, these are not mirror images of each other. They are largely the same but the studio model has several hand-drawn details on each. The original part is missing almost all this detail. Most of it became...

The final step was to make the front barrel end. On the model, this is a tube with a small notch cut out of the forward end. I made this using the barrel section from the original part. I colored the back side with silver Sharpie and cut some notches out of both sides. I curled the part, glued...

The guns were assembled easily. The rear is supposed to have a white grooved band wrapped around it with a flat white rectangle at the seam, which is missing on the original part. I drew up the band and made it out of card stock. The rectangle is just a piece of 67 lb. white cover. On the studio...

Thanks guys! WING GUNS On to the wing guns! Again, all the details were redrawn. The middle is a simple tube with the long tab removed, remade in printer paper and glued from behind. I used a little orange marker on the tab to further hide the seam. Both ends are made onto the original part. I...

Awesome! Hulk NOT smash!

MAIN BODY ASSEMBLY The 3 main body pieces are now lined up and glued together!:)

The detailing for this part was really hard as I was working with an unfolded part. I designed the panels as flat, separate pieces and scaled the to the approximate sizes I needed. Starting at the rear, I glued the parts to the very bottom and slowly worked the panel until it folded along the...