detailing the Airfix Lunar Module, the Carcogenic way

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good article from 1972 on detailing the Airfix 1/72 LEM
http://www.ninfinger.org/models/lmarticle/page2.html;

note the use of cigarette ash to make the lunar surface!
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LOL - times change but the rest of it is great detailing information.

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I used this article when I built the Airfix LM, Almark Modelworld was a cracking magazine cruelly scrapped after just eighteen issues due to the world paper shortage of 1973 and it has never been equalled, I must must get them off the shelf and look through them again.

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Was the paper shortage caused by people smoking unprecedented numbers of roll-ups to make a lunar landscape I wonder? Image

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My bible for Lunar Module accurizing is an article from a 1979 edition of Scale Models. I still have the article and it is pretty good.

If you don't want to kill yourself with lung cancer in pursuit of a better LM, why not go down the Type II Diabetes routr instead i.e. use the gold foil from Rolos.
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Yes, Airfix have removed that pleasure by providing the gold foil with the latest issue!
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Still worthwhile stocking up on Rolos though. You can never have too much gold foil.
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My, the way times change 8-)
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