My contribution to the Old kit build

[loupgarou]

Lots of tactical missile kits in the fifties.
To add some more items and corrections:
revell did the crated Honest John in 1/48, using as basis a civilian truck.
Revell did also the Lacrosse in 1/40, while Adams had the Honest John on its launcher, and the complete Hawk set (tractor, launcher and radar trailer) in 1/40.
Instead Renwal's Hawk, in 1/32, missed the tractor.
Revell had a set with the Little John and an early antitank  missile, Dart IIRC, in 1/40, while Monogram did the Little John on a trailer/launcher towed by a jeep in 1/32-35.
AND, very rare, the Lacrosse on tracked high speed tractor M-8 by Aurora in 1/48. I had built one when I was a kid... Seen only one on ebay in the last years, and the price it reached...

[Modelling_Mushi]

The eyes & shark mouth look perfect as positioned on the sheet, to me!

I know right? I mean, if you looked up and saw a V2 coming down on you and it had that face on the front of it, it would definitely cheer you up a bit.

I think you'd be a happy chappie anyway with eyes that good  ! Picking an object dropping in from the stratosphere at 2,800+ kph with no noise, small cross section and against a grey - usually - sky should land you a place in a record book somewhere.

But yeah, a happy face would help. I guess. "Oh look Mildred, those nice Germans have sent a present over, look at how reassuring the happy face seems and aren't they nice giving us that one tonne of atamol, they're not at all nasty like those Dutch who keep sending over Mr Rieu. I told you that nice Mr Chamberlain was right."

Or as Douglas Adams might have written:

"And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast?
Very very fast.
So big and pointy and round with a happy smile, it needs a big wide happy sounding name like … em … bin em … ich bin em … ichbem ... icbm! That’s it! That’s a good name – ICBM!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden crashing thud, was silence."

Ciao

[zenrat]

The Revell Honest John and truck kit is box scale.
Last issue claims it to be 1/54.

[Dork the kit slayer]

Latest progress.







Once I get all the odds and sods  in position and fixed,Ill give it a quick coat of photography and then start the "Wiffing".

[PR19_Kit]

.......Ill give it a quick coat of photography and then start the "Wiffing".

Does Hunbrol do that then? 

[Dork the kit slayer]

.......Ill give it a quick coat of photography and then start the "Wiffing".

Acrylic of course.


Does Hunbrol do that then? 

[TheChronicOne]

Hey, that's looking good!!  Keep it up, bro! 

[zenrat]

 

[Weaver]

Looking good! 

.......Ill give it a quick coat of photography and then start the "Wiffing".

Acrylic of course.


Does Hunbrol do that then? 

What's the Hu. number?

[Dork the kit slayer]

Lots of tactical missile kits in the fifties.
To add some more items and corrections:
revell did the crated Honest John in 1/48, using as basis a civilian truck.
Revell did also the Lacrosse in 1/40, while Adams had the Honest John on its launcher, and the complete Hawk set (tractor, launcher and radar trailer) in 1/40.
Instead Renwal's Hawk, in 1/32, missed the tractor.
Revell had a set with the Little John and an early antitank  missile, Dart IIRC, in 1/40, while Monogram did the Little John on a trailer/launcher towed by a jeep in 1/32-35.
AND, very rare, the Lacrosse on tracked high speed tractor M-8 by Aurora in 1/48. I had built one when I was a kid... Seen only one on ebay in the last years, and the price it reached...

  This came from the Boxart Den

[Weaver]

Ah, Lacrosse: from the good old "make the wingspan wider than the target" school of missile technology...

[loupgarou]

Yes. That's the one!