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

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

Special Hobby 1/48 X-15A-2 Build Update 7 (Final)

This is the home stretch on the build. Just a few minor things to do. First was to finally remove the masking from the underside of the plane. There was very little bleed from the black over spray. It was easily touched up. You can also see that at this point I've added the two … Continue reading Special Hobby 1/48 X-15A-2 Build Update 7 (Final)