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RESEARCH
There have been 'fan' produced publications that are useful to anyone wishing to work on an FS-1 model. Fred Barr produced three excellent
Seaview Sounding magazines many years ago, one of which featured the Art Director's drawings, and several unique photos of the various FS-1 miniatures. Fred's work is well worth finding if you are at all serious
about detailing out a model of any of the Voyage vehicles. His Seaview Soundings magazines are very useful publications.
There were other fan-produced documents, but they got nowhere near the distribution of the Fred Barr publications, or such a high density of
useful information per page.
One other form of research employed as I prepared to work up the Teskey kit was copies of VHS tapes of episodes Rick loaned me. Very useful,
and 'colorful' too. However, I caution those finishing a model of the FS-1 to take the colors seen in stills or video with a grain of salt: Color transfer from film, to tape, to broadcast, to TV screen is always
suspect. Does anyone out there really know what the Twentieth Century-Fox Carpenters painted those miniatures? However, I suppose no one can chastise you for going with basic yellow, silver and dark blue as the
colors for your model of the FS-1. When in doubt, go with the basic primary and secondary colors and you'll have it just about right, is my motto. Anyone out there want to challenge me on that? No? I didn't think so.
Don't assume that the simple purchase of the Rick Teskey FS-1 kit covers all the bases. Hardly. It offers nothing of the what-goes-where,
detailing, and colors – information you need to complete the project. Rick's kit only provides a lower and upper hull pieces in white gel-coat. And that's it! It's up to the kit-assembler to make or find someplace
to procure the detail parts, and to work out the where and how to attach them to the hull. But those additional chores do not occur without an extensive bit of researching on your part.
(Rick recently informed me that current kit parts are now laid-up with a yellow gel-coat. Why? I don't have a clue!)
My files were the prim source of research documentation used as I made the detail items needed to dress out my copy of Rick's kit. Just as
Rick made use of his files as he set about the task of building his hull masters.
Research, research … research!
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