The red Vega

bughunter Autor
After a few self-inflicted mishaps, the model of this famous Vega was finally finished.
Many thanks to Jacqueline in Switzerland for her help!

gorby
WOW, that looks beautiful Frank!

Robert Podkoński
Looks better than the one in the NASM (I've seen her there...). Congrats!

Dave
That is a beautiful looking aircraft.

Alec K
Very nicely done 👍

Thomas Bischoff
another masterpiece 👍 👍 👍

Bernhard Schrock
As usual: great job! I like your definition of gloss ("scaled down") 🙂. I do the same to avoid the toy effect. I hope to see more golden age birds in the same manner🙂

Pepe
Grande!!!!!

Ben M
Holy cow! That looks great.

bughunter Autor
What a wonderful feedback 🙂 Thank you very much mates!
@Robert That are bad news. I thought it looks nice there and also on the high-res pictures of the museum it looks great. But I do not want to ruin my model to display it in the condition of the museum 🙂
It's a real shame that my wheel painting is wrong. I only found a reference picture after the shoes were glued together.

Bernhard Schrock
Wheel painting: wrong?? I checked you wheel with the original and I can't see any difference…

commons.m.wikimedia..._Vega_5b_Smithsonian

Giannis Kaltapanidis
An otherwise indiferent bird, personally speaking, you managed to turn into a spectacle!

bughunter Autor
Bernhard, your link does not work. But all pics I know show only the tires and not the rims.
The picture I found later shows the complete wheels of Amelias plane during maintenance, see the text here:
flickr.com/photos/ai..m-72157707946474384/
The DoraWings model shows also a bit of the rims.
There were tow types of tires: on thin one, and a optional low pressure tire with thick wheels and bigger wheel pants.

Thank you Giannis! Glad you like it 🙂