Hasegawa 1/200 Space Shuttle

To take a small break from the Atlas, I started a new model. I'll be modeling it as STS-61A Challenger. STS-61A was Challenger's last successful mission before its last launch on STS-51L. It will have the payload bay doors open to show the Spacelab D-1 module which was it's primary mission for this flight. It … Continue reading Hasegawa 1/200 Space Shuttle

1/200 Mercury Redstone Part 2, Finish

When spraying primer on the escape tower I noticed that the side where you could see the mold line had no diagonal braces molded in, even though they were on the other two sides, as seen here. I searched through my inventory of styrene rod and found a close match, 0.3mm (about 0.010). I cut … Continue reading 1/200 Mercury Redstone Part 2, Finish

1/200 Mercury Redstone Part 1

The final part of this build is the 1/200 scale Mercury Redstone kit which is part of the AMT Man In Space kit. It is a very simple kit consisting of only 6 parts. Here is the parts tree. The extra two parts at the bottom of the picture are from a spare kit in … Continue reading 1/200 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