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  • Member since
    November 2005
I've built one....
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 11, 2005 9:06 AM
The only thing I can say about the kit is to be very careful when aligning the Recovery Module parts. The RM is divided into 3 parts (sides) and if you don't cement them together in the proper position, it will throw off the alignment of the Service Module & the Orbital Module.
Be very careful when removing the thrusters from the trees, I lost one of mine (the one of the sixteen little bitty ones) & had to make do with some from a 1/144 AirFix Vostok with launcher kit. needless to say, I have extras if you loose any of yours.
I covered all three modules with aluminum foil to simulate the thermal blankets that were applied to the exterior of the real space craft. Judging by photos in Aviation Week & since the spacecraft is an enlarged knock off of the Russian Soyuz, I went with the foil. I painted the Service Module White, the Recovery Module a Metallic Graphite, & the Orbital Module Ghost Gray.
I took the stick on decals from the 1/48 Shenzhou Long March Booster kit and photo copied reduced the Chinese flag to a size that looked right and glued it to the Decent Module.
The solar panels where painted a dark blue black on the top with the supporting frame painted silver& the bottom panel painted Panzer Buff with the same silver supporting frame.
Over all, I did find fit problems with some parts & that is why I covered the model with foil. The seam clean up just looked bad over all. I was to lazy to try & fix the left over all imprefections. Besides, the real thing has thermal blankets on it so why not?
Hope this helps,
Steve Sliger
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 11, 2005 9:08 AM
I goofed, this should be under the Trumpeter Shenzhou thread
Steve Sliger
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:45 AM
That's Ok, just click on reply at the bottom of the post you wish to reply to-which seems you have figured out to do. By the way Sign - Welcome [#welcome] to the forumsSmile [:)]
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    February 2003
  • From: The Wetlands of Long Island
Posted by sb36 on Monday, February 14, 2005 7:13 PM
thanks for your input steve. the kit just arrived today, and its about what i expected. i'm rather surprised by the lack of intrest in this topic along with the soyuz tm's. i figured tamiya or another big name model company would have produced versions in 1/72 or 1/48. i've built the realspace versions in 1/72 much better detail but in resin. thanks again. Cool [8D]
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