That came out Awesome.

I grew up in awe of those aircraft due to my Dad building the models of them in the very early 60's and letting us have them in our rooms for display.  

Play with his models?  Never.  He taught us respect for others work early.

Great job, and thanks for triggering some welcome memories. 

Nice job. Looks cool...

Somehow I missed the finished photos... 

Great job all around, I too love the lighting effects. You did a fantastic job on the missle and base but the lights take her to the next level! 

That is fantastic. The lighting was a great touch. I would have never thought of useing rope on the lights but what a great idea. My dad always said " you are only limited to your imagination" and you just proved it . Great job on it.

Turned out great!  I finished my launcher upgrades and then started on the missile.  Man, what a depressing chore!   Added additional stock to the elevons, had them fitting tighter and filling in a little better.   Shot it with the gray finsih coat and now I see that one has a nice warp in it!    Tempted to scrap them, fill the gaps with evergreen stock and sand away to fill them all in and then scribe the outlines.  But I did get a good coat of paint and Future on the fuseluge, but at least I didn't start decaling yet!

Love the lighting and the smoke!

David

Awesome work. The exhaust launch smoke REALLY put this kit over the top. Definitely makes a conversation starting night light. 

That turned out great!  You sure did a nice job on that old tired kit.  And your launch/lighting effects are fantastic.  Very nice piece.

Here is Lindberg’s 1991 boxing of the Snark missile in 1/48. I must have weeks invested cutting off flash and filling seams. What a mess these old molds were. I was bound and determined to finish as my wife gave it to me for Christmas 2 years ago. The key goal here was to go to another level with lighting - EXPLOSIONS! 
The models are painted with MCW acrylic lacquer. Those are the 31yr old decals…they looked good until i put clear on the Snark ones, a few showed some silvering almost like they lifted a bit with the hot paint on them. The tractor, hitch and stairs were weathered with Flory washes and dry brushed with Vallejo metal colors. 220 grit sandpaper for the base. Lights are 24v COB LEDs at 6500K. 9ft of them! Blinding even from the living room lol had to use my sons New Google phone to capture the scene. Any other camera just showed bright glaring light all around. The streaming jet exhaust is compliments of synthetic ‘rope’ style cotton. That really sets off the appearance of flow I think.

Here are my top 10 shots. Hope you guys enjoy them…

And here’s a sneak peak underneath

mfsob

Yep, the blast effect and smoke is going to look way cool!

 

But I wanted to say, Well done on allllllllllllll those white stripes. I have a complicated reletionshi* with white decal stripes ... and black ones ... and red ones ... and ...

 

made me laugh!! Great comment on the relationship between modeler and stripes  sometimes best looked at with blinders on

Yep, the blast effect and smoke is going to look way cool!

But I wanted to say, Well done on allllllllllllll those white stripes. I have a complicated reletionshi* with white decal stripes ... and black ones ... and red ones ... and ...

Ohhhhhhhhh, love the blast! That's going to look sooooooo cool!!!

Big thanks for stopping by Gamera!

coming down the home stretch now. so i can't use chicken wire to form a base for the smoke...realized after the fact that the lights have exposed wires at the joints so metal is a no-no for sure . Walking around home depot i found this plastic mesh they put between layers of landscaping bricks! Free  so i also found that CA doesn't stick to it real well. Dang. Twisted some copper wire to hold it together and stapled it to the base lol

then i used synthetic cotton rope. Gives a nice impression of flow doesn't it?

next is layering it up and then doing some hairspray and painting!

let me know what you think 

That looks awesome! Great job on the stripes and nice work weathering the launch ramp. Good to hear the decals went off without a hitch! 

TB you made me remember the 1st time a buddy wanted to blow up our models with firecrackers! i had forgotten all about that experience. I never brought a model over to his place after that. Just couldn't destroy something i made.

Decals going on today and I'm pretty happy! Liquid decal film and 2 minutes in the water then 2-3 minutes to set and they slid right off...all in 1-piece too!

check out the shield

solvaset isn't destroying them either so i have high hopes of these looking ok for the diorama. No crazy expectations that it'll be a show winner, just a great display that will remind some of us of the younger days like TB says and maybe inspire a kid or two around the model tables 

Hmmm;

 Sorry about the delayed reply. Yes I did. And it was the best looking conversion to a fighter plane I had.Looked wild in bright red with a pilot in it. I wish I still had all those models.

     When I enlisted I gave them all to my next oldest brother to play with. Well, needless to say he did and they went the way of all played with models, Right from his hot little hands to the round file eventually!

Today i put some felt on the bottom of the base and put some 5minute epoxy on the rods. Snark is all aligned now and ready for some smoke!

i tried one of the decals...on a positive note it did not shatter into pieces  and on the flip side, well it didn't want to release from the backing paper at all.  I waited about 3 minutes and was able to get it off in sections. Should have waited longer and maybe it would have come off all together? Anyone know a trick for that problem?

Looking forward to seeing that dhenning!!

made a little progress on mine. Mixed a custome guards red and 20-25% orange to try and match the color to my eye. Toss on some stripes and here you go!

Going to go with the gray opeational scheme with the SAC badge and milky way sash on mine.   Still working on the launcher details.   Overtime, the launchers were modified to reduce the amount of support equipment needed for a combat launch.   They eventually mounted a start cart (huffer) on the front of the launcher and ran a box duct down the frame of the launcher to the rear, where it divided into a couple of high pressure air bleed lines used to start the jet engine.   The photos of the truck in place during launch were also used in the combat operations at Presque Isle AFB in Maine. The truck carried a electrical generator (I think) to provide the ground power for the launch.  I think that the booster nozzles were turned to reduce any damage to the truck and generator.

Oh yeah Bill this baby was apparently just about scare tactics. They must have been depending on the range of the nuclear cloud.

Gamera you and i are about to be disappointed with the mottling attemptt...

Oh what a bad decision! The red is translucent. I knew the black needed covered well but this is ridiculous. I ended up putting a gray over it all. I think as bad as this shows thru that there will still be mottling after i cover the grey.

Here it is in light ghost grey over red mottling lol

glad i tried that while i had time this morning. Letting this dry while I'm at the inlaws this weekend.

Pretty interesting article on Wiki.

The guidance system was so bad that one test flight that was to be a round trip from Canaveral to Puerto Rico dissappeared. The missile was later found in the Amazon Jungle in Brazil!

Bill

Oh wow almost a turtle-shell look! I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out when you get back!

Thanks guys! TB did you build it? 

I did my mottled coat tonight. gypsy red lightened 10-20% with yellow 1st

followed by adding 10-20% black

it took more than I thought. Had to go slow and let the orange build up a bit for it to show on the black. Travelling tomorrow so done for 4 days or so.

Hey!

     I remember that model. I, as a youngster fascinated with things that fly, and didn't get a big allowance. Missile kits turned to fighters were de-rigour for me. They were cheaper.

Hey Dave glad you stopped by! I'm going with the red(kinda an orange red maybe?). In the pics I've found so far that scheme seems pretty pristine. The launchers seem quite abused tho. I've seen at least 1 shot where the truck is still there with the trailer attached during launch! For the snark i think some mottling over the black primer with +/-10% yellow might do the trick for my display. Anything to distract from the warped look lol 

How about yours, picked a scheme yet? 
checked out the video from the usaf museum of them moving theirs around? Gives some great shots of different parts of the missile you don't see in most pics.

Very cool concept!  This will be great to see the progress.   I am also working on the Lindberg Snark, but being afflicted with detail frenzy, I have been scouring the web looking for photos of the launcher and details of the operational missile (in it's very short service life).   So are you going with the red and white scheme or the gray with the SAC shield and sash?

Dave

Can't wait to see this one done.  Ive done a couple challenging Lindberg kits myself.  I bet you'll be happy to wrap it up as well.

Oh wow, she's gonna look cool when done!