[THE DC]

Joe was particularly proud of his use of foil paper to achieve a metallic finish. He had previously demonstrated this in an aircraft build that he had described; the Korean era Sabre. In addition to the accurate, tight build, he’d shared his joy of using tiny water-slide decals to detail the build (see Thread entry pics in Teakell’s Table; more planes…).

His use of foil paper has also been extended to space vehicles, when appropriate. These tiny, foil wrapped builds also share appropriate decal-detailing and were constructed to break into stages; accurate for the craft being miniaturized (see pic 1). Next to this foil papered rocket was another foil-rocket creation; a Mercury system that was complete with a tiny capsule and the top that separated, and even the nose tower at the top of the capsule (see pic 2). The escape tower also breaks away, in this complete, detailed build (see pic 3). Note in these tiny rockets, the details of rocket nozzles, stabilizing rocket ports, and even identifying decals.



Picture 1: Mini foil paper rocket stages…

Picture 2: mini foil paper rocket stages 0…

Picture 3: mini foil paper Mercury rocket stages 2…