US Air Force Snark Guided Missile Launch Site

Well done Richard! You do excellent wortk! I love seeing these dios.

Looks great, thanks for the pics....

Duke and Dave,

Thanks for the kind words. The hardest part of the big bird was the white decal stripes. They were translucent so I had to paint the missile white, mask off the areas where the stripes go with frisket paper and apply the red. I bought a tool from Micromark that cuts parallel lines. What a great tool as I was able to cut the frisket paper the proper width for all the white stripes. After the red dried for two days on went the decals without a problem.

Richard

good looking build

Thanks John,

I appreciate it.

Richard

So that's what it looks like assembled. Good looking build. I have two of those in my stash. They were fairly cheap a "BIG LOTS" and I decided to have one for a regular build and one for a fantasy build which I have'nt gotten around to as yet.

Splash,

A couple of words of advice on the Snark build. First, paint the missile white and mask off the places where the white stripes go as the decals are translucent and don't cover the red very well. I used firsket paper as the mask. Second, do a lot a dry fitting prior to gluing as I foud my model to be warped in places and poor fitting in other places. It makes you realize just how good todays kits are in comparison to those of twenty some years ago. Good luck with your build I'd like to see how it comes out.

Richard

Another awesome piece of aviation history being told by you.

The crew looks busy at work. I am worried about the man with the fire extinguisher because I dont think he's really gonna be worth a damn if there's a fire!

Great job, thanks for sharing!

good dio, richard!! the missile looks really sharp!

That dio looks great! I like the little tracked vehicle in the corner.