J H May model makers helped me make a spaceship that uses solar winds, it was amazing and I was the only one in the class to get top marks!!! At school we were given a sheet with many different projects to choose from most of them were reports and essays. There was also a task to build a spaceship that uses solar winds. Not many people even considered this one as it looked pretty hard.
After a couple of days I decided unless I was going to make it out of tinfoil and cocktail sticks I needed some help. I asked my dad (Simon Terry) if JH May could help me with making the model. Yes! I went to JH May when they weren’t that busy and asked how I could make a good model of a spaceship. We designed it first then discussed what would be the best materials to use. We decided that we would make the main body out of model board, and use white sticks to come out of each side and two solar panels on each side.
When we set to work the people that helped me with the space ship were very helpful, they showed me lots of different machines and how to use them. They used all the big machines that I wasn’t really old or qualified to use, so I sanded it with the glass paper and poked the sticks through the body of the spaceship – easy things like that. When the main body was made we put on masks and spray painted it silver (the same spray paint they use on cars!). I painted on a door and windows in black and yellow. The spaceship looked amazing!
A few weeks later when I had written up the facts about ‘a space craft that uses solar winds ’in a PowerPoint I handed it into the teacher. A girl in my class showed everyone in form time her apparently ‘amazing’ space ship she was going on about how it took her 10 hours to make and how she was going to get top marks in science. Personally I thought it looked a bit like a lamp shade frame that was painted yellow (I turned out to be right). When we got our results back 1 week later I had got outstanding! I was the only one in the whole form! The teacher asked if she could keep it hanging up in her classroom. It was the best thing I had ever helped to make!