Hi everyone.
This is the first model I've posted here at FSM. Lindberg's "Space Base & Satellite Explorer." Finished it yesterday. The station's docking pad was modified by moving the location of the radar, adding open and closed docking hatches, and scratchbuilding a long range antenna - for communication with ships on their way to the Moon and Mars. I docked one of the station's taxis with the shuttle from the second model in the kit, and made a custom stand so the shuttle and station could be displayed together. I know they're supposed to be different scales, but it looks okay to me.
My inspiration was the space concept art found in non-fiction space books of the 1950s. (There's a great site called "Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera" filled with illustrations from that decade.) Space exploration was more colorful in the 1950s - back when it was still something we could only imagine!
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