Hi Lou. Absolutely beautiful job! I have to say that every time you mentioned "silver" while having issues with the hull colour I was mentally shouting "no Lou - aluminium !" (translation: aluminum 😉) I would have gone with a satin finish but that is entirely a matter of personal taste and artistic impression. I'm not an aficionado of Lost in Space but the Jupiter 2 always reminds me of the alien saucers from one of my favourite shows - The Invaders ☺

And I thought to myself "...got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head..." and you said what I was thinking. Noooo!

Finally the holy hand grenade is out of primer!

“Stone knives and bear skins.”😂

The silver paint is spot on.

Danger Lou Robinson, danger. Fantastic build as well 👍🖖🖖

The original Jupiter 2 or Gemini 22 was painted with a dull aluminum paint than a shining one. The fact is that depending on the type of television you had in 1965, it will determine the colour of the spaceship.

Haven't managed to follow this build, but the finished ship is stunning. Wonderful work sir 🤩

Lovely mid-week surprise video. Great tips as well. I started lighting with a small kit for the Pegasus War of the Worlds Martian ship. Very simple as well.

OMG!!!! ROCKETEER RACOON!!!!! Love the shirt!!!!! I'm getting one!!!!!

beautiful build - lovely paint & looks fantastic inside.

Beautiful job Lou!

Saw this and got excited.. thought it was already Friday night.. oh well… Great model Lou!

Beautiful and amazing work, Lou! I've always lacked the proper "gene" for light kits, but I nonetheless love seeing them.

Great job. Jupiter 2 looks ready for take off. I would like to see you do, Planet Express Ship if anyone makes one. I am a fan of that show, all the characters are great. But the ship and Bender are special. Thanks for sharing your projects

What a great kit and you finished it beautifully. Tamiya paints are just great for painting models!

Very nice final observations. The plug-n-play kits are *so* good to the project, money is not a thing. My own sweet little fiddly burden fusion core kit is a royal pain but, as you say, is the first thing to do-- perhaps the only. And it comes with warm white LEDs. (Sorry, bud-- they're still too cool!) I found Rustoleum's Aluminum did the job as well as can be told from seeing the ship on a DVD video. A straightforward job done exceedingly well. Your chum will be pleased.

Here's a thought Lou.....I dont make many models but warching your channel for the last few years enspired me to try lighting. I had a revell tos enterprise; bought a load of mixed leds, some strip leds, and the new raspberry pi pico board. Learnt to solder (after a fashion) and learnt to write a simple python program on the pico. End result....an enterprise that light up in stages, with flashing nav lights and pulsating engines. In a word....get inspired and have a go! Here in the uk a pico costs £3.60....cheap enough for experimentation.

This was an except build series of the Jupiter 2. It looks beautiful. I will be building the 12 inch version coming up and will be using your videos as as a guide to my first real lighting project. Thanks.

Glad I searched for you on KZfaq! Made this Jupiter years ago and recently threw it away when it fell off the shelf and broke….now I bought it all and am doing it again. The little extra tips will make my new Jupiter 2 so much better. Next model kit to KZfaq suggestion: how about the chariot? Got your masks for it and am incredibly intimidated. Going to do the chariot with 3d printed figures then tackle the Jupiter 2 next.

Great job, as usual. I look forward to your posts every Friday.

Great job Lou. If u ever did another one, I think there is also an after market roof beam kit for the interior...

Great job on this Lou. 👏 Man I wished I had your free time. So many kits sitting in my closet just aching to be built. Thanks again for torturing me with your mad skills and looking forward to the next one!

Lost in space is my fave sci fi series of the 60s. Never was a fan of star trek. I have this Jupiter 2 model kit in the cupboard. I also have the space pod. I hope in time I get round to making them both. Thanks for the tutorial! This and trek works are my favourite modelling channels.

Great Job Lou Finish is Great Lighting rig Is really Awesome, My only little hit up was the window rods had a bit of over spray on the edge. Would recommend using the bottom of a X-acto blade upside down and gently push off the excess over spray off rods and smooth the rough over spray edges aside from that your J2 is Right on Lou your J-2 is Rocking Great Job Lou. When showed the inside i, it made me reminisce bout my Lost in Space Days. May try my hand on the build. Awesome job. = )

So beautiful brother! All I wanna do is crawl up inside that thing and take a nap with Robot standing guard.

Just ordered my usual two mask sets! I’m in!

Excellent work as always!! And yes silver can be a tricky beast

Excellent finished. Great job.

Very nice as usual for you. Thank you for sharing.

Wow. Great job!

Hi Lou , well what can i say .... What an OUTSTANDING model .. First Class professionalism on this .. I'm thinking of putting in the robot in mine to see if it fits and looks ok , without i being too big .. what do you think ? ... anyway Fantastic painting , lighting , everthing really , im going to do mine just like that one . . It would be great if the figures were available to go in there .. or would you think that would be too much .. I'd love to know your opinion on this .. thank you so much for your time and impeccable patients showing us all how to make this model and other models ... true to their appearance.. also i look forward to your next project .. thank you from Karl in England..

Fantastic work on the Jupiter 2! And wow I definitely got to get me some of those new nav boards. That's exactly the kind of thing I've been needing as well.

Good job. I would like to see a model of the Jupiter with a 2nd floor that shows how the hopper and chariot fit in it. If that is physically possible. 🤔

Fantastic job as usual Lou! You are probably aware that there is an excellent video on restoring the original lost in space pilot filming miniature which was named the Gemini 12.that version had much larger front windows and fusion core and new miniatures were built when the ship was re designed with a lower deck.the Gemini 12 was painted a flat aluminum color.Paul Lubliner did a fantastic job restoring the miniature to it's original condition.Thanks for another informative build video!!😀😀

This came out really really nice!

Lou , You shouldn't touch the paint work with your hands . You getting oil from your skin on the surface and that could lead to fisheye and weird anomaly's. Please invest in a small cup gun , that is the biggest problem your having painting these large surfaces doing metallic colors. Spray cans yield to many possibilities for spattering and uneven finishes. Harbor Freight sells small touch up cup guns for under $20. You can decant the canned paints and run them through the Cup Gun. Trust me on this.

Great job Lou !

She came out great Lou.

this is the best thing ever.

Going to look awesome buddy 😊👍

Killer build!

I agree, start out with a simple circuits ... i've done 2 kits now and had problems with the second kit as I went with Blinking lights for Navs and i had problems with some LED's due to changing the wattage of the resistors. blinking/strobing lights are a beast on there own. simple lights is the way to go for a series of kits before you go to the next level. otherwise, the lighting kits would be the way to go... everything is taken care of.

Esta quedando genial

Very nice Lou!

Lou, very nice build as always. I wish I had waited a little longer before building my J2 kit for some of your lighting ideas. BTW - I used AK Interactive Xtreme Metal Matte Aluminium for the hull and it looks good to my eye.

If he makes them cheap, I would be interested in those boards.

the jupiter 2 & space pod were the best things about LIS to me as a 9, 10 & 11 year old boy back in the day - they could put their j2 through anything thrown at them and it always succeeded in keeping them safe/alive - i was mesmerized how cool it was going through space (or even crashed in some shots) and could never get enough of all the shots of the interior, the gadgets & the room they had - it was so cool - anyway - i do have a question(s) if you know the answer(s) - the 2 circles to the left & right of the upper viewport serve what purpose - i know the somewhat larger one near the back/rear of the upper hull is for a retractable radar - then on the lower hull there is of course the lower viewport & 2 good size "hatches???" - one i imagine is for the space pod, but which hatch? and then the other hatch is for what - i believe i never saw anything (used) from the bottom of the j2 except the space pod & landing gear - great work! thanks! :)

Love those mid week updates!! The Jupiter 2 looks great Lou. The final silver paint turned out nice and even. That blotchy look is the problem I always have trying to do a silver metal finish. So much so I try to avoid it and use a gray instead. Speaking of gray I do like the way the gray front window frame contrasts with the hull color. I would never have thought about that but it looks good. If your B9 gets a glimpse of this he'll activate I'm sure!! Great job as usual Lou!!

Very nice!

Excellent work as usual ,the only lost in space kits I've ever built were the movie versions ( long since vanished sadly ) the plug and play lighting is my kind of set ( I'll admit to being bad at lighting diagram/setup/soldering ect ) which is why I've avoided building my ds9 kit ( original kit with lights and fiberoptics ) yes prebuild sets are costly but worth it if electronically inept

Alright, Lou, how did I miss this when you posted it weeks ago? It just showed up on my phone tonight. I think you either possess a time machine and went back and posted it, or you shot me with some sort of ray beam that made me lose time. Very nice job. As you said, it’s too bad that it’s all sealed up so you can’t see what’s inside, except through the windows.

If youre worried about damp conensation, maybe you could put it in a box with dessicant packages.

Lou, I'm really surprised that you didn't follow auto model car technique of painting gloss black for a base coat before the silver coat of which personally I'd go with TAMIYA laquer spray paints.

I realize it's too late this time around but I've found a great color for this type of subject is Krylon satin nickel.

A gerat kit to cut your teeth on with lighting is the martian war machine from war of the worlds. It's a simple kit you don't need to modify much and it doesn't need many lights to finish it.

I'm just being curious, did you consider using Tamiya TS-76 Mica Silver for the hull color? The timing of these videos couldn't have been better as I'm just starting my Jupiter 2 build and got some good ideas from you. Thanks Lou.

OH Boy! A mid-week update. How's it going Lou? PS: Yer my kinda "Dufus" to watch. 😄

Beautiful build, having the plug n play light set certainly saves time. How does Moebius light sets compare to Round2?

Can you tell me the output specs for the power bric? I lost mine in a move and need to find the correct replacement!

Schmutz he said schmutz 😂😂😂

Great Video Lou. A business question. I am lookong for window masks for the 1/1400 scale Enterprise E but don't see them sold buy anyone. There is a new technique for painting and lighting the E but it requires that you scrape the paint away from the windows. I would rather spend the time and mask the windows and remove them after painting them. Probably would take the same amount of time but I would rather have the masks. I already built the E for a child who had cancer and I drilled all those windows out. To me that's worse than masking. Unfortunately the child passed away during the pandemic and I wasn't able to get it to him. I am hoping his parents want it but I will keep it in my collection until they take it or not. It will remind me about him. He was a brave kid. Anyway if you do make them would you know who carries them. I tried cul tv man and monsters in motion but no dice. Thanks for the second video. I enjoyed it.

Wish they would do a plug and play lighting kit for the TOS 350 Enterprise

do anyone know what type of leds are on the fusion board as one of mine is not working