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Proteus

By John A. Lord


Here is photo of the Wilco Models 1/48th scale Proteus from the movie "Fantastic Voyage." I believe the scale is closer to 1/60th though. This was my first resin kit ever. Most of the clean-up was with the cabin windows-lots and lots of sanding with a fair amount of putty applied. The "dive planes" in front of the side intakes were terrible so I omitted them in favor of trying give the impression of a tubular "frame." It was painted with rattle cans with the interior details done by hand. A great first resin kit for anyone. The big challenge are the cabin windows. I thermo-formed clear sheet in hot water then applied it inside the cover. Not a perfect fit, but suitable. The original filming model lacked them. One of my references was Phil Broad's web-site: Cloudster. Great site!! Check it out sometime!

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