Robert Casey wrote:

I had a plastic model of a Gemini spacecraft. The kit came
with the option of modeling the craft for landing on land.


That would probably be the Revell 1/48th scale one that came with a
1/48th scale Mercury;
You used to get one of those kits when you signed up for The Science
Service and got their stick-in stamp illustration books for 10 cents
(IIRC). (I can still taste the adhesive on those stamps.) God knows how
many of those kits they made; it got reissued several times- the last
time with mission patches for Glenn's "Friendship 7" and Grissom's
"Molly Brown".
I say "probably" because OM is sure that the original release of the
1/24th scale Gemini also had the landing gear on it- at one time I was
sure he was wrong, but the more I think about it, there is something a
bit familiar about that also.
I've got a Revell 1/24th scale Gemini sitting about three feet from me
as I type, and that one at least has the landing gear doors molded
integral with the spacecraft's skin. So if they did have a 1/24th
version with the landing gear, they changed the molds at some point.
I'm going to get in touch with a space model whizz kid and get the
straight poop on this stuff; I'll let the newsgroup know what I find out.

Pat