My first Moonbus - all finished. This was a ''practice'' build - finding any problems or hitches in the construction process. Since I wanted to do something a little different for this one, and since I had some interesting decals in the spares box, I decided to do a Canadian 'bus. I also slapped on some service stenciling since I thought it odd that a piece of machinery this complex wouldn't have any maintenance instructions.

Since putting everyone in silver spacesuits would be boring I decided that the silver ones were ''generic'' suits for transient personnel like Dr. Floyd or for residents whose job normally does not entail going ''outside''. People who frequently work on the lunar surface would have a custom-fitted suit tailored just for them. The astronaut would also be able to choose from a selection of colors for the suit, as well.

I went with a light tan/dark tan/brown (Tamiya TS-46, AS-15, Testors 1183 (Rubber)) paint scheme for the interior. I used Tamiya Vietnam Camo Light Grey (AS-16) as my overall exterior color. The weathering is simply a wash of Tamiya Smoke, X-19, thinned with rubbing alcohol (in my hurry to get it finished to be photographed and put on display at a friend's hobby shop I forgot the exhaust staining on the RCS quads).

Late in the project a friend of mine had a great idea that I would have stolen if I had not been so far along on the build - convert the object in ''standing guy's'' hand to a rock and paint the aisle up as a sheet with a house next to the rear door. A couple of brooms for the seated guys and that's how astronauts from the Great White North kill time on their way to Canada's Lunar Farside Observatory! Well, that and a couple of cases of Molson's...

For those of you that are going ''huh?'' the terms above are Curling references (I had to Wiki the names for those things myself).

I'm definitely looking forward to building a few more of these!

Front

Crew

Passengers

Right

Underside