Roktman Posted March 4, 2019 Report Posted March 4, 2019 Created by Rob Schorry, and casted by Real Space Models, the kit are 1/24 models of Vanguard and Explorer1. Sometimes 1/24 will get you a giant vehicle and sometimes the tiniest thing. I think this is the smallest model I ever built. ;) LOL Doing Vanguard first, the kit comes in 2 parts of resin and 6 pieces of wire. All that needs to be done is sand down the sphere halves a little (I guess I could have gone a little further but didn't want to ruin it). After sanding, the parts were glued together, and then it was ready for paint. I didn't have any gloss primer so I used regular black. When that was dry, I applied some gloss, getting it ready for the Molotow chrome Paint Pen. The chrome is terrific!! Instructions say to leave the solar cells black, so the next and final thing is to glue the 6 pieces of wire in place. And that's that. Explorer 1 next... It's an excellent addition to my early 1/24 set of probes. Thanks for looking. You can find a pic of it here:
Roktman Posted March 5, 2019 Author Report Posted March 5, 2019 On 3/4/2019 at 10:59 AM, Mark Deliduka said: Sweet! That does look tiny indeed. Thanks Duke! 🙂 Posting it around I got a lot of comments on the size, so I took this pic -
Mark Deliduka Posted March 6, 2019 Report Posted March 6, 2019 Oh man, that IS small! Wow! I bow in the presence of greatness!
Roktman Posted March 7, 2019 Author Report Posted March 7, 2019 16 hours ago, Mark Deliduka said: Oh man, that IS small! Wow! I bow in the presence of greatness! Hehe thanks. It holds the record as my smallest. LMAO 😉
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