Re: Lindberg HMS Hood = Ironic Find

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I have a Monogram 1/32nd scale model Apollo CSM.
There are serious accuracy problems with the kit in regards to what the
instruction *** tells you to paint it like, and the gold plating on the
CM, but I painted it exactly as the instructions said.

Actually there's an interetsting story (supposedly) about the gold color.
All of the available photos in space and pre-launch show a shiny silver CM.
But the story is that the Monogram design team visited the Johnson Space
Center to get details from the CM on display there - one that actually flew.
The heat of reentry caused the silver to tarnish or "yellow". They thought
Gold was the original color.

There's a whole bunch of similar stories - the 1/72 Leopold with welded on
lift rings and no breach assembly. The Germans trashed the breach to prevent
the gun being used by the Allies - and the lift rings were welded on by US
Army Engineers so it could be lifted on a ship for transit to America after
the war.

A decal for an oil leak stain on the Nacelle of a E-2A.

Panel lines that match the mockup or the early flight test birds.

Operational aircraft with the flight test boom mounted in front.

Bombs painted like practice units.

Tamiya adding a volkwagen hub cab on a spare tire on a WW II kubelwagen.

I'm kind of wrestling with one of these questions now - to paint a Bonstell
moon ship like he painted it (19950s) or with actual thermal protection
coating colors like used on Apollo.

Val
Kraut


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