Seems he is a expart of engineering or specialist of architecture.
I hope I can pull this off - I already made an excuse for building the descent stage, heheh. Hey Darren - my LHS carries 12x24 inch sheets. I once bought 4x8 (foot!) 1mm styrene from a shop - really cheap but softer and more flexy than Evergreen. I would've used Sintra but they seem more expensive than styrene here. I read you could dunk them in boiling water, pull out and form to your desired shape with your fingers then "freeze" under the tap. And repeat if you make a mistake. Sounds like the "magic" material. I've never worked on expanded PVC before though so I chickened out and just used trusty old styrene. But they say it glues well with superglue and can be painted even without primer. I've seen lots of mecha models and costumes here made of sintra with shapes almost impossible to imagine with styrene. Someday I'll be brave enough to try. At least this LM is free of complex curves. Grumman did a fine job with the design - ugly for some as it's all function than form but I think the odd shape looks cool. 
Thanks for that! Alas, no stores like that here...
Roback, muchas gracias mi amigo (I knew Spanish 101 would come in handy). I've changed the title as I'll be building just the ascent stage of the LM-5. Tried to do the leg parts in Solidworks and found out I couldn't haha - especially that "sculpted" pivot link at the top end of the main strut - it was driving me nuts. I'll work on it in the future but I'll stick to the ascent stage for now to make the project a little bit more realistic for me - something more achievable. At least it'll be bigger - RC grade, scalewise, at 1/10. But it surely won't be doing any real flying. Foam Fusion doing too much of a good job holding the stryfoam and styrene together. And Katsu-san, we'll have lots to talk about besides models then if I get lucky enough to travel to Japan someday and meet you.
