Monkeying with the Moon (A blatant pearoast from when we last had this question, 11 months ago)
For some years I've been working on a large model of the Moon - well, the nearside, anyway. It's about 50cm across, a size chosen to be as large as possible while still able to fit through doorways. It's made of fibreglass, with the surface modelled in Milliput, working by eye from maps and photos.

The project has been on hold while my daughters were young (kids are Time Vampires, and this is a long process) but I'm planning to get back into it soon.

Here's a picture; one side is the real moon, the other is my model. Can you tell which is which?



Obsessed? Me? Well, the clue's in the username...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 15:08, 10 replies)

I think
you might have just trumped everyone else's stories.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 15:30, closed)

We call our kids The Time Bandits. I realise how much time I squandered before they arrived.

Tremendous model though - will it have a use?
( Varmint, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 15:41, closed)

That's no moon

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 15:52, closed)

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:09, closed)

Is the left side the model?

(OTT, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 17:27, closed)

I thought left originally, but lighting is very real almost overexposed
So I'm saying right is model... But AWESOME, REALLY IMPRESSIVE!
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 1:01, closed)

I think the right hand side is the model

(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 1:15, closed)

The model
the right side?

It's ever so slightly less-defined.


M-O-O-N. That spells moon.
(El Fandango carved a big EF onto his nemesis' doublet on .., Fri 12 Oct 2012, 2:55, closed)

Spoiler alert::
Left is real, right is model.

Thanks for the compliments!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:47, closed)

Muck Fe. That is fantastic.

( rjmrjm, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 20:13, closed)