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Can you tell me what this thing is?
Posted by BGuy on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:13 AM

Does anybody recognize the base in this picture?:

I've just acquired the *** tracy kit and would love to use a base like this.

 

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:21 AM

It looks like a representation of the moon to me! Geeked

Uhm... is that what you are asking? Embarrassed

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Posted by BGuy on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:23 AM

Very funny. :)

I'm asking if anybody recognizes what resin kit / base the moon is and/or where I can acquire one.

[EDIT: I just noticed that the FSM website actually censored my original post because I used what I can only assume was an 'inappropriate' first name for a 1940's comic book character, even though the original picture and description was posted in FSM's gallery.]

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Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:33 AM

BGuy

[EDIT: I just noticed that the FSM website actually censored my original post because I used what I can only assume was an 'inappropriate' first name for a 1940's comic book character, even though the original picture and description was posted in FSM's gallery.]

Yeah, this is the nannybot that makes sure all us bad people use appropriate language. It's even funnier when you realize that they don't bleep "peter". What ever happened to "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me"?

So long folks!

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Posted by the Baron on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:37 AM

That's not a repop of the original base that came with the original Aurora kit.  (Oh no, I said "came"--maybe the nannybot will censor that!).  It's a later addition.  Is that now by Polar Lights or Moebius?

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:45 AM

Bgrigg

 

 BGuy:

 

 What ever happened to "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me"?

I thought that was "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but chains and whips excite me".  I mean so I've read...

Okay... back to work.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2010 12:19 PM

...No...

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Posted by acmodeler01 on Monday, December 13, 2010 12:31 PM

It looks like half a *** from a ***'s *** to me.

Have you tried to contact the builder to see what he used?

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Posted by BGuy on Monday, December 13, 2010 4:00 PM

Yeah, I figured it was the nannybot, but thought I'd make a point about it.  As for the base, the re-pop of the kit comes with a rather less cool looking flat-ish moon surface type base that came with the original Aurora kit.  I've started looking around, but haven't found a site that sells bases like this at all. 

I'm *starting* to consider making one myself, but I'm not sure I'm really up to the task of doing it well.  Forming something like that by hand from modeling clay and maybe topping it off with some of that decorative 'flecking' spray paint (sold cheap at my corner dollar store) sounds like a good idea, but compared to the pic I re-posted, I'm thinking I'd like to see the aftermarket option, too.

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Posted by the Baron on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:06 PM

I think you could very easily make something better than the base in that photo, whether you chose to make a slice of a lunar globe, or a more representational lunar surface.  That base looks more like something from art class.  Not that it's not nice, but personally, I wouldn't use it.

Best regards,

Brad

PS--Log!  Uh, huh-huh, huh-huh, huh-huh-huh!  I thaid, "Log", that wath cool!

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

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Posted by BGuy on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:17 PM

Well, I have to say, that base in the pic really has anything I'd do beaten pretty roundly.  Must have been made in the 'advanced' art class.  With the vibrant colour and custom decals on the coupe, it makes, for my money, a really appealing display.

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Posted by Joe Brown on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:31 PM

On the Ninfinger site, there's a model from the 70's called the Pilgrim Observer, and that is the base for the spacecraft.  It's on page 8 of the instructions PDF file:

http://www.ninfinger.org/models/kitplans/mpc9001.pdf

http://ninfinger.org/models/kitplans/mpc9001.html

 

Fortunately, the re-pop of the kit is due out in 2011:

http://www.round2models.com/models/mpc/pilgrim-observer

 

 

Joe

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Posted by BGuy on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3:48 AM

Wow, I'm impressed with your encyclopedic knowledge, but I image searched pictures of the actual pilgrim kit and compared the two moons--I don't think they're exactly the same thing.  Pilgrim's moon is shorter and wider, I think, whereas the one I'm looking at is rounder and taller.  Plus the original FSM posting said it was made from resin.  I'll have to see if I can track the builder down.

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Posted by Justin Playfair on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 6:02 PM

It kind of looks like the base to the Polar Lights Jetsons kit.

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Posted by BGuy on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 8:53 PM

You mean this? :

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Posted by Justin Playfair on Monday, December 27, 2010 5:13 PM

Yeah...haven't seen it in a while,.. scratch that!

 

Is that your Jetsons model, BGuy? It'd be cool to see the rest of it.

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Posted by BGuy on Monday, December 27, 2010 6:10 PM

Nope, not mine.  Just a picture I found on the net for comparison.  I forget where, now, but reviews of the Jetsons kit are out there for the curious.

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Posted by Astronaut Buck on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:47 PM

Is this what you are looking for?

/media/p/1277352.aspx

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Posted by BGuy on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:38 AM

That would be a link to the original picture I posted, so...nope.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 7:56 PM

either a shower nozzle with attitude, or something from 1930-40s *** Tracy comic pages

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Posted by samdiego on Monday, January 3, 2011 11:35 AM

Justin Playfair

Yeah...haven't seen it in a while,.. scratch that!

 

Is that your Jetsons model, BGuy? It'd be cool to see the rest of it.

here's mine. I've had it since the first issue and it's been through 1 too many earthquakes falling at least twice. That explains the huge crack in the canopy. The figures are very well done and prepainted. Now I'm thinking of redoing the base as the one pictured above looks so cool.

George hasn't noticed that Elroy has applied an IHRA (interplanetary hot rod assoc.) sticker to the dome

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Posted by Redshirt 5 on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:36 PM

It would be the "*** Tracy Space Coupe"  (http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/misc/scifi/scoupe.htm)

 

 

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Posted by Cadet Chuck on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:05 PM

I guess we should refer to the famous detective as "Richard" Tracy.....    Zip it!

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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Posted by Doctor Noodle on Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:36 PM

That's a resin Space Base.

Alan

 

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*** Tracy ship
Posted by Gerry on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:32 AM

gee, can't wait for this beauty to be reissued.

[/sarcasm]

really, it's odd looking. But if they did reissue it...i'd probably buy it just to add to the collection.

Gerry ...Young at Heart - Other parts slightly older.

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