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

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)