Apollo 9 - 1/48 Scale Custom Model

Here is a buildup based on Apollo 9's Command and Service Module and Lunar Module. This project started out as a casual experiment to build just a 1/48 scale LM with scrap parts from a left over vintage 1970's Revell and recent Dragon Models kits and trying out various foiling techniques which eventually snowballed into doing the complete Apollo 9 spacecraft.
About 70% of the kits used are the 1/48 scale Dragon Apollo CSM and LM kits. There's even a few minor parts used from the Monogram LM "First Lunar Landing" kit. For the LM Descent Stage, I used the older Revell 1/48 LM kit's Descent Stage body and legs so they could be movable and the stage closer to the correct size in relation to the Dragon Ascent Stage. The underside of the LM Descent stage was cut from a Dragon kit's part. Most of the Ascent stage is from the Dragon kit however all smaller antennas, details and hand rail are scratch built. Both stages of the LM are completely colored/foiled using either candy wrapper colored foil or Bare Metal Aluminum Foil for the Ascent Stage body. The main struts of the legs are replaced with hollow brass rod to support the weight if needed. Because I wanted the landing gear to be movable, I didn't bother doing the full lockdown mechanism details as they'd easily pop off every time I'd move the legs. The probes under the footpads are easily removable thanks to tiny holes drilled in the pads.
The CSM is almost entirely the Dragon kit. I had some extra detail parts from a Neware Apollo CSM resin/photoetch detail kit for small things like the CM handholds and the resin SM engine. The CM is wrapped with Bare Metal Chrome Foil.
The base is a simple Polar Lights Large Dome Base filled with 2 part resin to give it weight with the Earth image painted on using enamel model paints and a new brass support rod painted, bent, drilled and placed in a better location on the base.
As seen in the last image in this clip, all four modules can be separated like the real spacecraft and have magnets inside and removable brass rods to firmly link all the modules together.
The entire build-up took me about 3 months of time with maybe 10 hours per week devoted to this project.

[@Sootaroot]

A fantastic achievement, produced from so many manufacturing sources. The most striking aspect is the CM surface finish, highly accurate and truly impressive, even despite one opinion to the contrary. You should be glad you are not my next-door neighbor or you would be getting bombarded by endless questions - how did you do this, what did you use for that, and so on, but one thing deserving particular praise is the inclusion of the landing gear probes which I think are scratchbuilt as I don't know of any maker who saw fit to include them, even though thy are such a distinctive part of the LM, rather like the PLSS aerial on the lunar suit which is likewise ignored on nearly every astronaut model I have seen.
Every model show I ever attended has its sniping critic, carping about some detail or other that they could have done better, and so it is with your Apollo 9. You can ignore the foul-mouthed words of "vstar", at least until such time as we get to see the results of his far superior project. Oh that's right - he hasn't got one.

[@x15galmichelleevans]

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.

[@tonyperez4791]

Amazing build , love it !

[@vstar7196]

You fucked up this build. No Mylar pattern on the Command Module. And the foil coverage on the LEM is wrong. Check your references.