1/65 Revell Chance Vought Regulus II |
Gallery Article by Mark McClellan
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Oct 14 2003
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The Regulus kit I
managed to find in an out of the way shelf in my favourite hobby shop in Perth.
When I bought it, I was teaching a Rocketry class in my high school and
wanted/needed some other examples of missiles, etc. Anyway, it was as good
an excuse as any to buy the kit. The main draw card for this kit (for me)
was the Navy uniform on the box art as well as the instruction cover page.
The uniform shows the insignia of a Navy Hospital Corpsman, first class which is
what I was in the U.S. Navy years ago. I didn't know that Corpsmen got to
launch missiles, if they did I may have stayed in!
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This is built
straight out of the box, raised panel lines and all. I airbrushed it with
Testor Model Master paints using my car's spare tire for pressure (pre
compressor days...) I am still impressed with the kit decals as the colour
does not show through (much) behind the "stars and bars" where the
blue meets the white. A bit of decal set helped them settle down fine.
As this is an odd scale kit I cannot do much in the way of a diorama, maybe I
could build a 1/65 scale sub to go with it?