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

NASA 1960’s Manned Spacecraft Group

I finally got around to finishing the the mount for the Apollo 10 spacecraft. I combined them with my Horizon Models 1/72 Mercury (Freedom 7 and Faith 7) spacecraft and the Dragon 1/72 Gemini (Gemini 6) spacecraft. I created some custom decals for each spacecraft and mounted them together on a wooden base that I painted flat … Continue reading NASA 1960’s Manned Spacecraft Group

Horizon Models 1/72 Mercury Spacecraft Build Update 2 (Final)

Here is the final dash to the finish line for this build. With the decals complete on the retro pack, I painted the small posigrade rockets red and used CA to glue the straps to the retro packs. The kit does not include any clear parts for the port holes or windows. To represent them … Continue reading Horizon Models 1/72 Mercury Spacecraft Build Update 2 (Final)