This
is the 1/48 Revell Gemini that I had assembled many years ago, and
recently disassembled, and then reassembled with some modifications and
added detail.
I
cut off the nose, about 1/4", and made a disc from sheet plastic to
replace it and scratch built the radar components and drag chute mortars.
I also built up the inside of the hatch doors. The window coves in front
of the hatches, were sanded down smooth and replaced with a piece of
thicker aluminum foil ( ... from a frozen lasagna lid ... ) and the
shingles were replicated by burnishing the foil on another section of the
'capsule', thereby forming the shingles into the foil. The foil was cut to
size and glued down with super glue. The thrusters on the adapter section
right behind the capsule were all scratch built, because the kit items
were incorrect.
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images below to see larger images
The
horizon sensor, and the three little open access doors on the narrow
adapter, were also scratch built.
The
seam between the two adapter sections was sanded down and replaced with
two widths of styrene strip, ( ... one wide, one narrow ... ) and glued in
place on top of each other. The foil on the back of the adapter was made
with a wrapper from a chocolate bar. To support the foil, I glued 12
supports in to the back of the adapter and glued the foil to them. The
boom magnetometer coming out of the back was made with stretched sprue,
styrene rod and a small piece of aluminum sheet, from a printing press,
cut into a triangle, and all glued into the adapter in a pre-drilled hole.
The
strips of gold foil hanging off the adapter section were formed with
narrow strips of aluminum sheet, wrapped with the gold foil and glued with
super glue.
I
then placed the extended antennas on the adapter section, into pre-drilled
holes.
Finally,
the decals were from Rick Sternbach, at Space Model Systems, and were applied in
the usual manner.
Pete
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