Glencoe Retriever rocket

While I'm letting the paint dry on the Sky Flash, I pulled Glencoe Model's Retriever Rocket out of the stash. It's another kit that I had quite a while and taking a break from resin, it'll be good to work in styrene once again. 

The first thing I noticed was that there is a huge flight deck window. Looking thru the parts there is no flight deck ... nothing.  So two things that can be done is to just shade the windows over so you can't see in, or create a flight deck. 
If anyone actually reads this stuff, and if any of those who know me, knows I have to make things WAY difficult for myself. So I am going to create a flight deck.  The box says this kit is 1:72 scale, so the first thing I did was to get one of those tools that lets you figure out curves angles etc... When that came I figured where the back wall of the fight deck was to be. From there I figured out a floor covering every angle that could be seen from the inside. 
Next I bought some 1:72 cockpit seats.  They came from a Ka-27 jet strictly becasue they had four in the package. The I wanted to make it really busy, so I also bought instrument panel PE.

The PE set is actually 1:48 scale. I didn't mind it being big as I wanted the flight deck to look "busy' and this will definitely do that. 

Let's start building - 

Oops, that came busted.

 Turning my attention back to the flight deck, I think I did a review of Blue Stuff. It's looks like squared off lengths of blue hot glue sticks. It softens when it is put into *hot* water, and is used for making copies of parts. I had a 1:72 pilot mold sitting around for a long while. So I got it out and started making pilots. I decided to use 3 seats, so I will need 3 copies.

Here's on pilot done sitting on the Blue Stuff mold with pilot #2 inside "cooking." The pilot is made of Yellow Gray Milliput. You can use any sort of 2 part epoxy. The one caveat is that for whatever reason Aves Apoxie Sculpt will not work. No matter how long you leave it, the copy won't harden. So far Milliput and Greenstuff has worked for me.  For other epoxies - try it out. If it doesn't work it won't ruin the mold, only waste a little time.
Thanks for looking. See everyone next time.

 

New Aquisitions

A number of kits arrived these past few weeks. The first package arrived from Megahobby. I ordered the Vallejo Face paint set, and also the newly re-released Retriever Rocket.  Looking at the Rocket there's is one piece that was broken, but it's a clean break and will be a simple fix. The rest of the kit is very nicely done. There's a little flash, but nothing to worry about. One thing I will have to think about is unless I missed it, there's no flight deck. So I can either cobble one together out of another kit, or paint over the windows so no one can see in. As of now, I'm leaning towards build a flight deck.

Next was a pre painted statue of Medusa. Medusa is one of my favorite characters in mythology, and whenever I can pick a Medusa up I will  (I have a few waiting to be built). ;)

This one came from Dellamorte Co., doing business on Etsy.  They actually have a number of interesting prepaints. Unless I'm thinking about a different Co., I thought one of the options besides prepaint was a plain resin cast. No more if they ever did. The one I picked up was the larger of two versions and it's in a nice art deco type faux bronze. I've yet to make up my mind if I will leave it as is or paint it up differently.

Next up is another favorite movie character. It's Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday from Tombstone. This bust comes from CGS Military Figures and it a 1/9th bust. The title is aptly called "I'm Your Huckleberry."

I was so interested in seeing it, and I put it together even tho I'm not ready to paint it up. I left his gun(in holster) off so I could make painting easier. But he is depicted tapping on the gun handle.
I can only hope they also produce a Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp and a Powers Boothe as Curly Bill. My wife is also in love with Sam Elliott, so a Virgil Earp would be a treasure on her desk. ;)

Lastly, I received the Star Duster from Fantastic Plastic. I have a separate review of that one.   Thanks for looking.