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Main bus: Main bus piece cut out, folded, ready to glue. An old Lego piece comes to my aid helping to ensure I glue the sides up vertically. Main bus all glued up including upper fuel tank end.

Thanks for the tip @zathros I'll look into that. I think it would help with the other support trusses, two of which I'm wrestling with at the moment! I never even knew those UV activated adhesives existed!

Reflector structure: Shaped the reflector shallow cone. It was easier to colour the insides of the tripod legs and around all the relevant edges black before gluing the shallow cone onto the back. Added the low gain antenna. Decided I ought to have coloured the back side of it black with a...

Thanks very much. According to J. Leslie's site where I found it (http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_postapollo.html) it's only difficulty 5/10, but certainly hard enough for me at the moment, especially trying to do it justice and not just rush it through.

Wow, thanks for the encouragement Dan and Mijob - means a lot, especially as I'm a bit of a novice!

Feed horn: Used progressively smaller diameter metal cylinders and tweezers to roll the horn as tightly as I could. This part would be much easier to make with paper rather than card. Perhaps I did something wrong, but curled to the dotted line it's a bit small for the circle where it goes (I...

Gluing support base ring to underside of HGA dish: Dry run positioning the HGA on the support base reading for gluing. My new circle former is perfect for sitting in the dish to help apply even pressure while the glue sets. It's like piping icing applying the glue (Anita's PVA Tacky Glue) :)...

Gluing support base ring to support base white side: How to ensure the support base ring is as circular as I can make it? What I need is something that will apply even pressure outwards around the whole ring. So I thought of a strip of thin plastic curled up should be fairly springy, wanting to...

Although NASA's website seems to have gone "mobile-native", there is, if you can bear to search, a lot of excellent information still available. I came across this on my surfing travels yesterday and thought it probably helps to answer why they're still going ...

My first "live" build thread! (and my first thread on a forum for a long time so please bear with me while I get the hang of this :) ) After 20 years away from this hobby I'm getting back into things (See Introduction). After having done an R2D2 and mini X-Wing (which I'll post the build of...

Thank you all for your lovely replies, I'm looking forward to getting stuck in with you all :)

Hi all, I built the "complex" NASA Cassini-Huygens satellite paper model in 2004 but haven't had time to do any more since! I did purchase Cyana's (Microartwork) Apollo Crawler Transporter when it came out a few years ago, and my ultimate goal at the moment is to be able to do that justice, but...