Lost Apollo Missions and What Might Have Been Impressions

[saturnapollo]

Been working on representations of potential future Apollo missions if the program had continued.

Grumman proposed derivative LM Truck for extended 14 day missions and a
favourite of mine of potential landing sites, Schroter's Valley. Didn't
make it easy for myself picking that one! Had to cobble something
together to represent the rille, by using the large diorama/mini photo
set I built for it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemodelsphotography/48289340602/in/album-72157667646196676/

[dougkeenan]

Thank you for sharing.  Beautiful work.

[Wicky]

Impressive series of images.  How do you set and compose the pictures and are they real models™ or 3d digital ones?

[saturnapollo]

Thanks very much guys.

They are real models. Often photographed in front of a blue background and composited in Photoshop. In these photos many of the lunar surfaces are actually part of large dioramas/mini photo sets using rubble from a house being gutted round the corner from me (all the Schroter's Valley images were cobbled together from the diorama). Background  mountains were rendered in Terragen, a landscape rendering program. Some of the images used Apollo photos for foregrounds.

The LM truck Descent Stage is the 1/48 Dragon kit, with a scratchbuilt cargo module, the 1/25 LRV Lunar Model from Lunar Models and the 1/48 advanced LRV scratchbuilt using an ERTL toy chassis. The large astronaut figures are modified Dragon CanDo 1/24 figures.

Hope that answers your questions.

Keith