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Hello Folks! Following is my assembly of LVM Studio’s magnificent kit of the Baikonur Soyuz Launch Pad. A really big kit (resin, photo etching) which will host my NewWare kit of Soyuz TM. http://www.forum-maquettes-spatiales.com/t1282-lanceurs-r7-vostok-et-soyuz-tma-new-ware-1-144-montage-de-bgire I first discovered this kit on the LVM Studio’s stand in Telford Scale Model Show four years ago. It took all this time to decide to start this huge project. The cardboard box is really big and includes many parts and assembly instructions (a CD): Inside, many photo etched sheets (.15mm brass), numerous resin parts and 4mm thick styrène plates for the concrete base: Starting with the « concrete base ». This reproduces only part of the real, huge platform built above a big trench in Baikonur. The top plate and inner cylinder are moulded parts, the rest is made of 4mm styrene plates. Meanwhile photo etched plates and resin parts are airbrushed (army green on white undercoat): Finishing the “concrete” base: The numerous service arms basements are secured with screws from the bottom of the base through the top plate, mainly because of their reduced surface which are insufficient to hold them: To be continued…
