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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2977814, member: 76194"][USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] I received the models today. Looking at the extensive paint jobs on all the pieces...which I can only do on the weekends as I get home late during weekdays and I don't want to stink the house up with paint fumes, and the tiny sizes of some of the pieces and stickers, I think it's safe to say each rocket will end up being a 4 weekend project (ie. a month each).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, looking at my son's excitement at the thought of seeing his dad put them together sure makes it worth it. He even asked me to tell him the history of each rocket, and listened as I told him about the Mercury 7 and the Mercury Program.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732034[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And look at what I bought last night to also put together...a 1958 kit of Vanguard. Doesn't get nerdier than this. It even has glass top and bottom of sphere in order to give people a glance into the inner components and machinery of the satellite. How cool is that?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The modeler, Hawk, rushed in 1958 to get this kit out before the first launch of Vanguard, so the internal components are not completely accurate, but they did a decent enough job considering they built this from preliminary drawings of the satellite that NASA made public.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as you know, Vanguard blew up spectacularly....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732039[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Which means that the actual Vanguard I was differently internally from the Vanguard in the model kit, and it wasn't until Vanguard II was launched in February of 1959 (after six or 7 other Vanguard rockets also blew up) that a satellite with similar internals to the model kit was launched. So the model is technically in hindsight actually Vanguard II, America's 8th successful satellite (instead of the 1st as was intended), and the world's first weather Satellite. Still cool no matter what. Oh, and Vanguard II is still in orbit around the Earth, as are most early US Satellites, as the US launched the first few Satellites into fairly high low Earth orbits. Can't say the same about early Soviet satellites. Most of them have already come down. Maybe some day a hundred years from now someone can rescue Vanguard II from orbit and put it in a museum. I hope so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2977814, member: 76194"][USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] I received the models today. Looking at the extensive paint jobs on all the pieces...which I can only do on the weekends as I get home late during weekdays and I don't want to stink the house up with paint fumes, and the tiny sizes of some of the pieces and stickers, I think it's safe to say each rocket will end up being a 4 weekend project (ie. a month each). However, looking at my son's excitement at the thought of seeing his dad put them together sure makes it worth it. He even asked me to tell him the history of each rocket, and listened as I told him about the Mercury 7 and the Mercury Program. [ATTACH=full]732034[/ATTACH] And look at what I bought last night to also put together...a 1958 kit of Vanguard. Doesn't get nerdier than this. It even has glass top and bottom of sphere in order to give people a glance into the inner components and machinery of the satellite. How cool is that? [ATTACH=full]732036[/ATTACH] The modeler, Hawk, rushed in 1958 to get this kit out before the first launch of Vanguard, so the internal components are not completely accurate, but they did a decent enough job considering they built this from preliminary drawings of the satellite that NASA made public. But as you know, Vanguard blew up spectacularly.... [ATTACH=full]732039[/ATTACH] Which means that the actual Vanguard I was differently internally from the Vanguard in the model kit, and it wasn't until Vanguard II was launched in February of 1959 (after six or 7 other Vanguard rockets also blew up) that a satellite with similar internals to the model kit was launched. So the model is technically in hindsight actually Vanguard II, America's 8th successful satellite (instead of the 1st as was intended), and the world's first weather Satellite. Still cool no matter what. Oh, and Vanguard II is still in orbit around the Earth, as are most early US Satellites, as the US launched the first few Satellites into fairly high low Earth orbits. Can't say the same about early Soviet satellites. Most of them have already come down. Maybe some day a hundred years from now someone can rescue Vanguard II from orbit and put it in a museum. I hope so.[/QUOTE]
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