You can build and fly either (or both) of the Vostok or Sputnik capsules.On the right are all the parts.
Half of the capsule body is clear so you can see the Cosmonaut and detail inside.
The Cosmonaut is glued into his chair and into the capsule.
The small capsule glues on at an angle into the open half.
I'm not painting anything inside the capsule. The outside halves will be an opaque olive drab.
A single lead weight is 0.18 oz.
You are given two weights, one for the Vostok, the other for the Sputnik.
Isn't the color of the Vostok a dark Euro gray rather than green? I do recall reading that many older photos weren't colour corrected so the rocket appears green.
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ReplyDeleteI used the Peter Alway book Rockets Of The World for a color reference.
All the illustrations specify "Olive Drab".
Apparently part of the confusion comes about due to film stock that the Soviets used tended to shift toward green.
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A friend (who could read Russian) helped me translate some information on the instruction sheets of a few Russian-produced model kits (one of which was for the Vostok) that I was able to obtain -- the instructions call for a grey rather than green on the Vostok.