1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 4

I started back in by painting the window area of the capsule. Gus's capsule had silver below the window and like all the capsules with a window, the window area was surrounded by a red silicone seal. I used Vallejo Silver RLM01 and the red was Vallejo Red RLM23. When those had cured, I glued … Continue reading 1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 4

1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 3

To begin this update, I glued the instrument panel onto its place on one of the cabin walls. I used a bit of pigment lightly brushed onto the raised areas to add some visibility to the controls. I then painted some of the details on the cabin back. Most of it was just gray. I … Continue reading 1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 3

1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 2

With the tower legs cleaned up, I started on the other nose parts. The nose cap was masked and then primed and then painted with Tamiya TS-14 Black. I then used some MicroScale MicroMask to cover the painted part. This will protect it when the tower is painted red later on. Once the red is … Continue reading 1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 2

1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 1

The first part will be the Revell Mercury kit. Here is a view of the parts trees. Considering the age of the kit (it came out in the mid 1960's), the parts are molded pretty well. Not too much flash, but some of the parts aren't as crisply molded as you might like. At the … Continue reading 1/48 Mercury Redstone Part 1