the ANGRY RED ROCKET

[ajamodels]

Here's my latest. The rocket seen in the film "The Angry Red Planet". I liked this film, an entertianing 'B' movie from the 50's.

Fresh out of the casting machine this morning, the model was cleaned up with some minimal sanding.
I painted the whole thing with white primer - then masked off the areas for a light silver paint. Then -at this point- i painted one side of the engine covers with bright red.
All this by 5 pm! The model is about 9.5" tall.
3rd photo is the three engine bells and the nose 'spike' - which is simply a tooth-pick cut in half.

 

[Carlb]

Very cool.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Digressing a bit but it always trips me out a little these classic movie rockets depicted so quaintly landing on their tails ends up how things are actually turning out.

 

[joberg]

Nifty model/project Adam

 

[ajamodels]

I noticed the entry door goes right through the central engine. Most space rockets from this time period show this!!

 

[ajamodels]

Just mounted the engine bells, and painted the area 'light gun metal' with a very heavy coat. The 'bleeding' is deliberate - you'll see later.
I added a black band at the base of the nose cone made from 1/32" wide black Chartpak tape. nice & clean!
I found a very small American roundel decal in my stash. this will be apllied last.
At this point i am waiting for paint masks from a friend for the dark blue areas, that could be a couple of weeks. Attached is the paint guide i derived from photos of the filming model.

 

[joberg]

Niiiice

 

[JNordgren42]

Neat project! It looks like the design is based loosely on the Atlas missile/launch vehicle.

 

[publiusr]

Atlas was what you called a stage-and-a-half design:

https://www.enginehistory.org/Rockets/RPE05/AtlasCutaway.jpg

Atlas

Atlas

www.astronautix.com

Early on, it was to have five engines

Convair CGM/HGM-16 Atlas

Horizon is going to do a 1/72 Atlas-Agena

Horizon Models - Plastic Model KIts

Horizon Models - manufacturers of the 1/72nd scale Mercury⢠Spacecraft model kit

horizon-models.com

 

[ajamodels]

Here's an update: made a 'Mars Terrain' base, and trying to make it look like the rocket engines were sunk into the blast crater as seen in the film.
I'm very pleased with the result.
Still missing blue bands, but when finished, i'll add lots of soot on the base of the rocket to match the film!

 

[Carlb]

Nice work Adam. What materials were used fo your "surface"?

 

[joberg]

That surface looks really good Eager to see the completed dio Adam

 

[ajamodels]

"What materials were used for your "surface"?"
The base is a piece of hobby 1/8" plywood. I found a Revell moon crater base in my stash :

REVELL - 04827 & H-1862 LUNAR BASE STAND FOR APOLLO 11 COLUMBIA & EAGLE 1:96​

I altered it ALOT using Aves epoxy sculpt and glued it down to the plywood. The whole thing was painted with a heavy coat of Testors 'sand', then i sprinkled Mig ochre pigment all over it when it was still wet. The black soot around the blast crater was done with Texwipe TX 761 swabs & Tamiya weathering 'soot'.

 

[rbeach84]

Looks good! Funny how they figured Mars would look basically like the Moon... but 'red'.
R/ Robert

 

[ajamodels]

Finally finished this:

 

[JNordgren42]

It came out great!

 

[joberg]

Real nice Adam, real nice