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Offline Kerick

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1950s movie rocket ship
« on: September 06, 2016, 03:48:26 AM »
yuumi2891103 from Starship Modeler sent me a box of parts quite some time ago. (Thanks again Katsu san!) Inside were three fuselage halves of an F-104 Starfighter. I've always thought an F-104 would make a great golden age rocketship. I glued up two halves and used parts of the third to close up the cockpit and landing gear wells. Two halves of the forward part of a 1/48th F-4 centerline tank provided fairings to close up the intakes.



Lots of Aves and Bondo were used to smooth things out.



Extra fins are from the SU-105 build.



A little Perfect Plastic Putty.





When the surface was all smoothed out I first applied a coat of gloss black, then I believe it was Krylon silver. What a mess! The silver attacked the black and made it look like curdled milk! I was so disgusted with this I let it set for ages. Finally last week I decided to give it one more try. I sanded down the silver until all the "curdles" were smoothed away. Down to bare plastic in many spots.



I added some fin tip pods made from 1/72nd F-4 centerline tanks. Each appeared to be from a different kit. One of these was from Katsu also.

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Here's where I'm at now.



The first two tries using Testers "Chrome" rattle can had issues also. The paint seemed to take a long time to dry and some areas formed groups of what appeared to be bubbles. That had to be wet sanded down and resprayed. I'm down to just a couple of runs on the fins.



I'll paint these a different color or put some sort of decal over it. I might just finish this one after all.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2016, 03:52:36 AM »
Looks good
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2016, 03:58:55 AM »
Wow!  That is certainly looking the part of a retro sci-fi space ship.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2016, 07:27:11 AM »
what a great transformation
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2016, 09:00:41 AM »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on September 06, 2016, 03:58:55 AM
Wow!  That is certainly looking the part of a retro sci-fi space ship.

Quote from: buzzbomb on September 06, 2016, 07:27:11 AM
what a great transformation

+1 on both statements! 8) 8)
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2016, 09:23:06 AM »
Looks the part beautifully.  Bravo, sir!
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2016, 09:35:13 AM »
Quote from: elmayerle on September 06, 2016, 09:23:06 AM
Looks the part beautifully.  Bravo, sir!

Yes it does.  Can imagine it on the AFB theater movie screen while F-100s, C-124s, B-47s are over at the flight line.  8)
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2016, 09:56:35 AM »
Quote from: finsrin on September 06, 2016, 09:35:13 AM
Quote from: elmayerle on September 06, 2016, 09:23:06 AM
Looks the part beautifully.  Bravo, sir!

Yes it does.  Can imagine it on the AFB theater movie screen while F-100s, C-124s, B-47s are over at the flight line.  8)

I can imagine that too!
Question now is military or civilian markings? I have plenty of military decals and some airliner windows and doors too. Tough choice. I wish I had some TWA or Pan Am decals. I'm sure I could order some.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2016, 11:24:58 AM »
Quote from: kerick on September 06, 2016, 09:56:35 AM
Quote from: finsrin on September 06, 2016, 09:35:13 AM
Quote from: elmayerle on September 06, 2016, 09:23:06 AM
Looks the part beautifully.  Bravo, sir!

Yes it does.  Can imagine it on the AFB theater movie screen while F-100s, C-124s, B-47s are over at the flight line.  8)

I can imagine that too!
Question now is military or civilian markings? I have plenty of military decals and some airliner windows and doors too. Tough choice. I wish I had some TWA or Pan Am decals. I'm sure I could order some.
Be subversive!  Aeroflot or if you really want to have fun, ANA.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2016, 01:34:37 AM »
I have ANA from a 1/200 scale 737!
I'll have to look for some old style NASA markings
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2016, 06:16:39 AM »
Ooooohhhh all nice & shiny!

Many thanks for the photo play-by-play. It's a bit of a reach for me to use anything but Tamiya putty, but you've got me considering other options...

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Offline Kerick

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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2016, 09:52:43 AM »
The Aves epoxie sculpt is great for filling in larger areas. I need to learn how to sculpt it better so that less sanding and putty would be needed.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2016, 10:26:16 AM »
Sanded down the fins (again) and painted them flat steel with a brush. I finally settled on some decals so I might just finish this soon.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2016, 05:31:33 AM »
Here's the pics!











Hope you like it!
It does need a base.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2016, 06:25:21 AM »
Amazing!!! Wonderful built.  :) :)

Send pictures to Elon and tell him this is what an ITS spaceship should look like!  ;D
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2016, 07:38:48 AM »
That looks fast even standing still. :)
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2016, 07:39:41 AM »
Very cool.  :)
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2016, 07:49:42 AM »
That would make an excellent hood ornament :) 

But seriously, that is one nice looking retro science fiction space ship. 
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2016, 09:17:30 AM »
Thanks my friends!
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2016, 10:02:20 AM »
Gorgeous work!!  Looks like something out of a 1950's Hollywood special effects model shop (and I mean that in a good way).  Overall, it fits the designation on the side and, IIRC, comes close to matching the appearance of the ship from Rocketship XM.
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Offline Kerick

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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2016, 01:14:52 PM »
I remembered that movie as I was looking at the JU 88 decal sheet in the stack. It had F1*XM so I thought, "Why Not?"
Those 1950s designs sure looked different than what happened in the real world. I almost went with a silver, black and white scheme but I decided to stay with silver.
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2016, 01:32:02 PM »
Is as 1950s as Elvis was back in 1950s. :-*
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2016, 01:41:52 PM »
Beautiful rocket! It has a Wally Wood look to it
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2016, 10:21:42 PM »
I'm SO glad you stuck with pure silver! ;D

That's so 1950's it hurts! Fantastic! 8)

I'm not really a 1950's spaceship fan but I love this one. :-*
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Re: 1950s movie rocket ship
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2016, 12:09:28 AM »
Yowsa that's gorgeous!

Love the cool shape of the cockpit windows.

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