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 Jim Piszar's Jupiter 2 Construction
part 5

This picture shows the completed freezing tubes. The cryogenic mechanism was built using small oval shaped beads threaded onto a pipe cleaner. I used the flexible portion  of a juice box straw to make the hoses. The pipe cleaner ends were fed through small holes drilled into the lower deck and rear panels.

The plasma tubes were cut from a 1/8" dia. clear plastic rod purchased at my local hobby shop. For the base and the cap, I wound transparent tape around the ends of the rod and then painted them silver.





Here are the rebuilt seats. I used plastic sheet to build up the sides and to make the headrests. Also seen in this photograph is the  raised panel on the wall. Again I cut this panel out of sheet plastic using Ron Gross' box art as a reference and painting it prior to gluing in place. NOTE: I think I blew it on the color of the floor, but as we all  know, the Jupiter's interior colors are subject to interpretation.






This is a picture of the communications wall. Although not clearly visible in this shot, I made a viewer out of scrap tree material from the kit. Also, my kit was one of the first runs and had the upside down main hatch. I followed the direction from Polar Lights  web site to correct this along with cutting the window out of the hatch. The unfinished port hole can be seen in this picture and I am still in the process of relocating it.




To have easy access to the lighting batteries, I did not glue detail #26, Ladder Wall,  in place allowing it to be lifted out of place.





The last time I removed det. #26, I found something surprising. GALACTIC GRAFFITI !

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