Re: Lindberg HMS Hood = Ironic Find



Val Kraut wrote:

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.

Is this a winged Bonestell rocket or one of the big unstreamlined landers like a super LM?
I ran into the same problem when I scratchbuilt a 1/72 scale Sanger Antipodal bomber a couple of decades ago.
Should it have some sort of thermal protection on the nose and wing leading edges? I painted them to resemble graphite and added wingtip reaction control thrusters as the vehicle would need someway to keep itself oriented after its intial climb out of the atmosphere.

Pat
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