My space models

[ZAX]

...I completed the details and sprayed with the base color, I will correct the mistakes and spray again....in the final, I would like to spray it with chrome color...

[ZAX]

Sputnik 1
the first artificial satellite of the Earth

(Soviet Union)

The author: Václav Šorel, Jaroslav Velc/ ZAX

Publisher: ABC magazine

Scale: 1:14,5

My next addition to space technology is the first artificial Earth satellite. When I recently glued together the Magion 1 satellite, I thought it would be nice to look at the very beginning of spaceflight and glue together the first satellites launched by mankind. and what else to start with than Sputnik 1. So ladies and gentlemen, this is how it started :

The Sputnik program was a Soviet space program that began in the late 1950s to demonstrate the use of unmanned Earth artificial satellites (Russian: cпутник). As part of the space race between the great powers of the USA and the USSR, the Soviets decided to speed up the existing programs and launch into orbit the simplest possible satellite weighing up to 100 kg. In the early stages of design, it was designated as Sputnik
It was constructed in the late 1950s by Sergei Koroľov in the Soviet Union. It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR on October 4, 1957 at 19:28:34 UTC using a modified two-stage R-7 launch vehicle, which was modified from the military version for cosmonautics and renamed the Sputnik rocket. It belongs to the category of scientific satellites. Sputnik contained a transmitter that broadcast a beeping signal on frequencies of 20.005 and 40.002 MHz from October 4 to October 25, 1957. this signal in its time became a symbol of the beginning of the cosmic era. The transmitted signal made it possible for the first time to check the distortion during transmission from orbit, thus also the properties of the atmosphere and ionosphere. The satellite orbited the Earth until January 4, 1958, when after 1,440 orbits it entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up. (source. wikipedia.org)

The description of the construction of the model was published in the magazine ABC, I actually only took from it that I used a ping-pong ball, the central strip and the length of the antennas. I finished the other things myself according to the photos I found on the internet. I sprayed the model with a base color, corrected the mistakes and finally sprayed it with chrome paint. The model received a standard stand (like Venera and Prognoz) with the name and year of launch, and since I am planning more satellites, I will also put the flag of the country that launched the given satellite, a few photos:

[Butelczynski]

Your Sputnik reminded me of a conversation I had years ago with retired teacher on Toronto. She was curious about me growing up in communist Poland and we talked a lot about things like Sputnik. It blew my mind just how much that little sphere meant and changed in Western world while over in Poland it was news for a short while and everyone went about their day. 1957 was pretty shaky time in Poland. Hungarian revolution happened just year before and that sparked a lot of changes.

Great model btw. ABC did a lot of very good models.

[THE DC]

Originally Posted by ZAX

Sputnik 1
the first artificial satellite of the Earth

(Soviet Union)

The author: Václav Šorel, Jaroslav Velc/ ZAX

Publisher: ABC magazine

Scale: 1:14,5

My next addition to space technology is the first artificial Earth satellite. When I recently glued together the Magion 1 satellite, I thought it would be nice to look at the very beginning of spaceflight and glue together the first satellites launched by mankind. and what else to start with than Sputnik 1. So ladies and gentlemen, this is how it started :

The Sputnik program was a Soviet space program that began in the late 1950s to demonstrate the use of unmanned Earth artificial satellites (Russian: cпутник). As part of the space race between the great powers of the USA and the USSR, the Soviets decided to speed up the existing programs and launch into orbit the simplest possible satellite weighing up to 100 kg. In the early stages of design, it was designated as Sputnik
It was constructed in the late 1950s by Sergei Koroľov in the Soviet Union. It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR on October 4, 1957 at 19:28:34 UTC using a modified two-stage R-7 launch vehicle, which was modified from the military version for cosmonautics and renamed the Sputnik rocket. It belongs to the category of scientific satellites. Sputnik contained a transmitter that broadcast a beeping signal on frequencies of 20.005 and 40.002 MHz from October 4 to October 25, 1957. this signal in its time became a symbol of the beginning of the cosmic era. The transmitted signal made it possible for the first time to check the distortion during transmission from orbit, thus also the properties of the atmosphere and ionosphere. The satellite orbited the Earth until January 4, 1958, when after 1,440 orbits it entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up. (source. wikipedia.org)

The description of the construction of the model was published in the magazine ABC, I actually only took from it that I used a ping-pong ball, the central strip and the length of the antennas. I finished the other things myself according to the photos I found on the internet. I sprayed the model with a base color, corrected the mistakes and finally sprayed it with chrome paint. The model received a standard stand (like Venera and Prognoz) with the name and year of launch, and since I am planning more satellites, I will also put the flag of the country that launched the given satellite, a few photos:

Your builds are clean and influential!


You could provide an entire thread on how you touch up and smooth out your finished products! There's not a seam or build-line anywhere.


I'd read it!


Any tips?

[ZAX]

...just briefly, I don't spray paint the model right away, I use a base color as soon as possible, which will unify the entire model in color and show all the flaws that I can't see after gluing...
when I have it in one color, I thoroughly check the entire model and correct the mistakes by gently sanding the given place with sandpaper (for example, the edges of paper parts can sometimes curl after spraying, so I sand them), if the part does not fit somewhere, I first fill the gap with putty ( I use ordinary putty for wood, because it is easy to sand), after the putty has dried, I gently sand it again with sandpaper and spray it again with the base color, if I still see some mistakes, I repeat the whole process until I am satisfied, and then I spray the final color (preferably more thin layers like one thick one that would run off me) and that's all, I don't use anything special...
I will also glue the Vanguard 1 satellite, which is similar to sputnik, I will try to take more photos when I do it...

[THE DC]

Originally Posted by ZAX

...just briefly, I don't spray paint the model right away, I use a base color as soon as possible, which will unify the entire model in color and show all the flaws that I can't see after gluing...
when I have it in one color, I thoroughly check the entire model and correct the mistakes by gently sanding the given place with sandpaper (for example, the edges of paper parts can sometimes curl after spraying, so I sand them), if the part does not fit somewhere, I first fill the gap with putty ( I use ordinary putty for wood, because it is easy to sand), after the putty has dried, I gently sand it again with sandpaper and spray it again with the base color, if I still see some mistakes, I repeat the whole process until I am satisfied, and then I spray the final color (preferably more thin layers like one thick one that would run off me) and that's all, I don't use anything special...
I will also glue the Vanguard 1 satellite, which is similar to sputnik, I will try to take more photos when I do it...

Great process.


I guess this is more difficult if dealing with a kit with markings that can't be painted over?

The wood putty is a great tip!

[ZAX]

...any putty can be used. it just has to be easy to sand... (I once used putty that could only be sanded with a sander and that was useless)

Explorer 1
(the satellite of the Earth-United States of America)

The author: Pavol Dubovec

Publisher: Zenit magazine

Scale: 1:15

After the first Soviet satellite, I have here the first American one. Interestingly, like the Soviets, this was not supposed to be the first US satellite. (satellite Vanguard 1 exploded on launch and went into space later)
The launch took place on February 1, 1958 from the LC-26A launch complex at the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch vehicle was Juno I, which was developed from the Jupiter-C suborbital rocket. Just before it, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched, and on November 3, 1957, the Sputnik 2 satellite was launched.
The main scientific instrument on Explorer 1 was the so-called cosmic ray detector. A Geiger-Müller counter designed to measure radiation in Earth orbit. This experiment, led by Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, revealed a much smaller amount of cosmic rays than expected. Van Allen thought that the instrument might have become saturated with very strong radiation from a belt of charged particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field. The existence of these radiation belts was confirmed by another American satellite launched two months later, and they were named the Van Allen belts after their discoverer. Explorer 1 made its first broadcast on May 23, 1958. After more than 58,000 orbits, it entered the atmosphere and burned up on May 31, 1970. (source wikipedia)

I didn't modify the model, I just added a standard stand, a few photos:

[ZAX]

Buran

Scale: 1:?
Author: Marián Hlaváč
Publisher: Perfekt, green book

Buran (Russian: Буран – buran) was the first Soviet space shuttle. The space shuttle program began in 1976 as a response to the US Space Shuttle program. It was the largest and most expensive program of Soviet cosmonautics. As part of the program, in addition to the space shuttle, the Energija launch vehicle and the Antonov An-225 aircraft capable of transporting Energija and the shuttle itself were also developed. In 1988, the first (and last) space flight of the space shuttle in automatic mode took place. The program was terminated in 1993 due to a lack of funding and a difficult political situation. (source wikipedia)

A simpler model built without modifications, I just added a pad. I like the installation of this space shuttle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, so I tried to make a mat accordingly.

[ZAX]

Endeavour

Scale: 1:?
Author: Koichi Kiyonaga
Publisher: Canon, free model


Endeavor was an American shuttle that was used in the Space Shuttle program from 1992 to 2011. It was built in 1991 as a replacement for the destroyed Challenger. It was named after Captain James Cook's ship. It is the youngest American space shuttle. (source wikipedia)

I am continuing the series of simpler shuttle models. model from the Canon site built without modification, I just modified the pad a little.

[ZAX]

Boeing X-37

Scale: 1:?
Author: Koichi Kiyonaga
Publisher: Canon, free model

The Boeing X-37 is an experimental unmanned space shuttle designed to test new technologies in orbit and re-enter the atmosphere.
An X-37 first flew during a drop test in 2006; its first orbital mission was launched in April 2010 on an Atlas V rocket, and returned to Earth in December 2010. Subsequent flights gradually extended the mission duration, reaching 780 days in orbit for the fifth mission, the first to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. The sixth mission launched on an Atlas V on 17 May 2020 and concluded on 12 November 2022, reaching a total of 908 days in orbit.[3] The seventh mission launched on 28 December 2023 on a Falcon Heavy rocket, entering a highly elliptical high Earth orbit. (source wikipedia)

I am continuing the series of space shuttle models. This model is also from Canon's website. the shuttle itself is built without modifications, part of the model also includes a part of the rocket capsule in which the shuttle is launched into space and I modified it - from the outside I added an outer shell and inside I added panels that were only drawn there and I also modified the base a little.