1/72 Redstone Freedom 7

Gallery Article by Phillip Steele on Aug 10 2012

 

 

A nice offering by Dragon, the Redstone rocket & Mercury capsule. Good diorama potential here.  I'll have to do one up one of these days.  This is a very cleanly molded kit with excellent decals. Instructions are on the box back.  Building & painting in sub assemblies will give the best results (as always). 

 

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Tamiya gloss white, gloss black, Model Master insignia red & chrome silver were used.  The cylindrical parts were given two coats of the gloss white, the first coat being wet sanded with 1000 grit paper.  A very light application of Dullcoat was used to seal the decals. 

This build was a nice break: no scratch built parts needed, no #80 holes need to be drilled. Nice.

Phillip Steele

      

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