Airfix 1/144 Vostok 1 (Soyez)

[EpoxySniffer]

Cheers guys


Just a little update....

Does any one want a ciggie......?

:

I got this kit for £4.99 in Hobbycraft, the only good deal I have ever found in the place. So I am watching your build with interest Lee. Its going well so far.

Though those don't look like normal legal ciggies ... I guess its okay to have space cadet smokes for this build.

[Lee]

Cheers guys


Just a little update....

Does any one want a ciggie......?

:

I got this kit for £4.99 in Hobbycraft, the only good deal I have ever found in the place. So I am watching your build with interest Lee. Its going well so far.

Though those don't look like normal legal ciggies ... I guess its okay to have space cadet smokes for this build.

Ha ha - excellent

[Lee]

First go at using alclads and I've got to say I've fallen in love with a paint! It has to be the easiest and smoothest paint to spray, sheer bliss applying this stuff and the finish is ultra smooth....

[Coen]

Holy crap. Look at that... No wonder Paulywog goes on about the stuff.

[Paul]

Holy crap. Look at that... No wonder Paulywog goes on about the stuff.

Ha ha, I thought lee was gonna knock one out before telling me how good alclad was lol

I've said it before and I'll say it again, for a NMF nothing comes close to alclad

[Lee]

Nearly finished now...

Just got to do a very fiddly job and paint the fins on the Soyez orange, give it a few coats of varnish and do the base then it's all done!





The instructions call out for the inside of the booster rocket nozzles to be painted red, but I don't think they were and I'm having a hard time finding out for sure. Does any one know one way or another?

[ModelingMatt]

I think it looks pretty good on it's own without a base but that's just me. Terriffic progress. looks like you might be the first one done.

[Lee]

Cheers Matt. I'm with you on the base mate, I'll do it anyway and then if I need it it's there

[fly1ngdutchm4n]

Looking realy good Lee.

The instructions call out for the inside of the booster rocket nozzles to be painted red, but I don't think they were and I'm having a hard time finding out for sure. Does any one know one way or another?:

I think the the inside of the booster rocket nozzles are red indead...





Cheers!

[Radzy]

Whoa... that what Captain Marko Ramius meant when he said "the world trembled to the sound of our rockets" in Hunt for Red October

GJ so far Lee.

[Lee]

Thanks for that Dutchman

[Rob]

Nearly finished now...

Just got to do a very fiddly job and paint the fins on the Soyez orange, give it a few coats of varnish and do the base then it's all done!





The instructions call out for the inside of the booster rocket nozzles to be painted red, but I don't think they were and I'm having a hard time finding out for sure. Does any one know one way or another?

Sorry if this is childish but the first pic looks like the pepperoni man with one red arm one blue arm and orange tootsies

Sorry

Once I get that out of my head - it is one fine looking rocket

[Lee]

Ha ha - come back and finish me off ya wimp.....lol

[wappynutter]

...... He's a bit of an Animal.....

[5Craven]

Lee, I can confirm that the rocket nozzles interiors are definitely Red. If you watch this Youtube clip you can see the business end of the rocket as it is rolled out to the pad right at the start.

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If you are interested in the soviet space programme the whole series is well worth watching.

[Lee]

Thanks Dave