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Vintage Estes Nova Scout ship Build
Here is my next build
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I have finished the build and brushed on 4 coats of balsa sealer, as soon as the rain stops I will spray with black paint. In the meantime I was able to finish my Guillows P-40, I brushed painted with Testors Acrylic paints. The 1/72 F-14 is an old Monogram snaptite kit airbrushed with Testors paints.
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Nice build. I just finished the Starship Nova...well as far as I'm going to get until I can paint some of the parts before final assembly. My winters usually involve a lot of building ending up with a lot of nekkid rockets waiting for painting weather.
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It is going to rain again so I was able to get her painted today and will allow to dry before applying the decals. I brushed on 4 coats of Aerogloss sealer and sprayed Old Krylon Gloss black. After the decals I may hit her with Testors Dullcote. The balsa came out nice thanks to Aerogloss but I discovered today that Midwest will no longer produce the Aerogloss line, too many regulations. I am going to try Brodak and hope it works as well. I am hoping this does not happen with my Testors enamels someday, I keep hearing talk from modelers that enamels will eventually be a thing of the past.
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I finished my Estes Nova Scout and I must say she is a pretty nice design. I am not too happy with the decals but they will have to do. The problem is the rocket is supposed to be black, but the yellow decals don't have a white undercoat so they appear translucent. I finished her up with Testors dullcote and cannot wait to see her in the air. I would like to move onto my next build but I will have to wait until my Brodak balsa sealer arrives.
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Very nice work as always. That's a nifty little model.
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The yellow's translucency sure doesn't read in your photos, scigs30. She looks GREAT, especially in dullcoat!
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I'm not positive, but I think that the Nova Scoutship and the Starship Nova were the only rockets produced in great quantity that used that 'droop beak' nose cone. Would not surprise me if more were sold off in 'futuristic nose paks' and 'futuristic parts assortments'.
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That a nice job on a nifty kit.
Estes needs to bring back another run of these old cool looking kits. Can never have enough cool looking rockets on the wall. |
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There was another kit called Nimbus with the droop nose cone.
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