1/48 Mauve A-4/V-2

I'm unfamiliar with the Mauve brand.  Looks like a simple enough build.  I have a Pegasus V2 model I hope to paint up as one of the White Sands research rockets.  Look forward to seeing how this one turns out!

Gary

Did you have a problem fitting the nose tip?  My kit was weirdly off-kilter and looked like a scissors!  I ended up cutting both tips off and aligning them manually.  For such a simple kit, it sure fought hard.

Everything lined up fairly well.  Just a couple of ledges to sand and I checked the seams with aluminum paint and won't need filler!  I used liquid plastic cement for all the plastic. I have started the launch platform which is white metal and I am using JB Weld to hold it all together.  I'll post some pics tomorrow.

I built this kit in the mid 90s, I liked it. Mine came with a white metal launch pad if I remember correctly, that was around 25 years ago.

Here's the white metal base. Finished it a couple of nights ago. Hope to prime and paint it this week. I'm gonna do the splinter camo on the rocket.  I think I got this in '97 or '98 have to check my records.  Fun easy build.

I was given the kit around the same time.  It was quite expensive so I did not understand the giver’s eagerness to unload the kit on me.  His reason was ostensibly to get me to build it for our club displays.  But I found the kit somewhat of a bear to build, as it lacked finesse in molding.  Lots of parts required tedious cleanup and dry fitting.

I finished my kit in one of the B/W test schemes.  The white metal Von Braun figure was never cleaned up nor painted, and went AWOL ages ago.

Back in the day, the subject matter was considered quite esoteric, but just look around today and you will find V-2 kits in every major scale.

I didn't have much trouble with the plastic except for a couple of ledges when the parts went together. The metal base required some filing to remove some seams and sprue residue and was a little difficult to keep some of the parts to stay put while the glue dried. I used JB Weld and 5 minute epoxy for the metal and liquid cement for the plastic.  If nothing it's helped jump start some quality bench time.

Here's my A-4, built around two decades ago.

The in-scale Tiger was built by a friend and was thrown in for size comparison.  The A-4 was a large rocket, but could not compare to the ones built following the war.  I had a photo of a 1/144 A-4 next to an Airfix Saturn V, and it looked like a toothpick!  Sorry, I did a quick search, but the photo is on a external drive somewhere.

The white metal stand required lots of cleanup, as you know.  But it is pretty sturdy - and heavy!

Looking forward to seeing yours finished in camo colors.

That turned out great, Real G!  The base indeed weighs a lot, but it really replicates the real one from pics I've seen.  Maybe get some color on it this weekend.  Jammed up on a couple other kits I am tryihg to finish.

Hey, I pulled the dusty Airfix Saturn V and a Japanese mini 1/144 V-2 from the case and took some pics.  Side by side, the advancement of rocket technology in the span of 25 years is startling.

Beautiful!!