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

Mercury Redstone Multi-build

Well, let's see how this works out. I'm going to do a multi-scale build of the Mercury Redstone vehicle. One will be in 1/200 scale from the AMT Man In Space kit. One will be 1/72 scale from the Horizon models kit and one will be in 1/48 scale using the Glencoe Jupiter-C combined with … Continue reading Mercury Redstone Multi-build

Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 4 (Final)

The final bit of assembly consisted of adding the landing gear and the landing gear bay doors. I glued the doors on with some Plasti-Zap CA glue. When those were cured I used Tenax to glue the landing gear in place. If you look closely at the bomb bay doors near the rear you will … Continue reading Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 4 (Final)

Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 3

This post is much later than I had originally planned. After getting back from the eclipse my back started bothering me. Lower back pain with pain radiating down the back of my left leg. Plus, a third of my left foot toward my toes was numb. This had me sidelined for several weeks. It is … Continue reading Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 3

Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 2

Things are moving along well with the F-117. The landing gear bays need to be white. So I used a combination of paper and masking tape to mask off the bottom. I then sprayed the bays white. It took a few coats to make sure that the entire bay was covered. I also started priming … Continue reading Hasegawa 1/72 F-117 Nighthawk Update 2