Big news: Our VFX shoot has been pencilled in for November 1st through 15th. Yes, it's finally happening!
I've now moved on to the detail portion of the build. First I pored over all the hi-res shots of the service structure and compiled the details it will be necessary to add. At last count, there are seventy-three unique details, half of them nuts, bolts, pipes, conduits, and wires (and thus relatively easy to do). I then bought all the sh*t I'd need (including about a nautical mile of brass tubing) and got down to it.
Here's my bench at day's end. I'm starting with the "bunkhouse" and working my way down. Seven details in the bag already.
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And here's an example of an annotated hi-res shot. This is from an Agena mission that occurred after Project Mercury had ended, so a lot of the mods made to the service structure won't be present on my build.
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