Aggregat 4 - 1/48 Pegasus Hobbies
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:41 am
The Original
The Aggregat 4 was developed by Nazi Germany and operational by 1942. She was classified as a ballistic artillery rocket, but I post her under the space-topic because she was the first man-made object that reached space on June 20, 1944. The official definition of the border to space is altitude 100km or 62 miles. She was a remarkable carrier of technology at her time and can be called the ancestor of space flight. Her chief designer, Wernher von Braun, is well known so I don't wanna go more into detail here.
It has to be said, that the Aggregat 4 or Vergeltungswaffe 2 - V2 (weapon of revenge) like the German Ministry of Propaganda called her, was developed under the massive use of forced labor under unspeakable conditions for the workers.
The Kit
It's the only kit of an A4 in quarterscale. Designed as a snap-kit it's part count is rather low and quickly build up. Compared to the very detailed kit from Takom the rivets and panel lines are more based on artistic licence than scale drawings. The main part of the rocket is made of two parts. The more the engravings are on the outer ends of the semicircle, the more shallow they get. It's a short run kit so this was acceptable for me. I rescribed some of them on spots I had to sand but not all of them. Overall it was a quick and fun project.
The Aggregat 4 was developed by Nazi Germany and operational by 1942. She was classified as a ballistic artillery rocket, but I post her under the space-topic because she was the first man-made object that reached space on June 20, 1944. The official definition of the border to space is altitude 100km or 62 miles. She was a remarkable carrier of technology at her time and can be called the ancestor of space flight. Her chief designer, Wernher von Braun, is well known so I don't wanna go more into detail here.
It has to be said, that the Aggregat 4 or Vergeltungswaffe 2 - V2 (weapon of revenge) like the German Ministry of Propaganda called her, was developed under the massive use of forced labor under unspeakable conditions for the workers.
The Kit
It's the only kit of an A4 in quarterscale. Designed as a snap-kit it's part count is rather low and quickly build up. Compared to the very detailed kit from Takom the rivets and panel lines are more based on artistic licence than scale drawings. The main part of the rocket is made of two parts. The more the engravings are on the outer ends of the semicircle, the more shallow they get. It's a short run kit so this was acceptable for me. I rescribed some of them on spots I had to sand but not all of them. Overall it was a quick and fun project.
