Anyone familiar with this?

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Jim Davis

Jim Davis wrote:

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Jim Davis



Yes, that was one of my favorite models of all time. It was a reworking
of a kit Monogram marketed in the late 50's-early 60's. They took out
some missiles and added others- the Snark, Mace, and Matador went
bye-bye, the Titan I got replaced by a Titan 2, and Poseidon, SubRoc,
Spartan, and Phoenix got added.
Really neat kit- huge decal sheet. I always thought that Atlas looked
undersized in comparison with Titan II though (the Atlas is one of the
two engined prototypes BTW.)
I gave mine away, but had it souped up so that it had _all_ the missiles
employed by the military on it- clean down to the Dragon and TOW
antitank missiles, and the Stinger and Redeye SAMs- all of which were
mighty tiny in that scale, let me tell you.

Pat

Jim Davis wrote:

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Jim Davis


It's not a bad kit. A bit dated, and a bit low on details.

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Scott Lowther wrote:

It's not a bad kit. A bit dated, and a bit low on details.


Whole lota painting to do on it, that's for sure. I'd never heard of
Petrel before I got that kit.
Later, during the Reagan administration, Monogram brought out a somewhat
similar kit with all the main U.S. and Soviet missiles in 1/144 scale:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/model...smus-ussr.html
My 1/144th scale Gemini is sitting on the Titan II from that kit.
Here's a picture of the boxtop of the original 1959 Monogram " Missile
Arsenal" kit, that the one on E-bay is based on:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/model...ps/monpd40.jpg
Here, a Jupiter C and Vanguard are included for some reason. "Okay, ve
can stick a warhead of a Genie on der Jupiter C und maybe make it into
der ICBM. We do that faster than the damn Air Force get that Atlas
verking. You give me 90 days." :-)

Pat

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:26:34 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Yes, that was one of my favorite models of all time. It was a reworking
of a kit Monogram marketed in the late 50's-early 60's. They took out
some missiles and added others- the Snark, Mace, and Matador went
bye-bye, the Titan I got replaced by a Titan 2, and Poseidon, SubRoc,
Spartan, and Phoenix got added.

....Which is why serious modelers go after both kits, so as to have a
complete set.

OM

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OM wrote:



Yes, that was one of my favorite models of all time. It was a reworking
of a kit Monogram marketed in the late 50's-early 60's. They took out
some missiles and added others- the Snark, Mace, and Matador went
bye-bye, the Titan I got replaced by a Titan 2, and Poseidon, SubRoc,
Spartan, and Phoenix got added.



...Which is why serious modelers go after both kits, so as to have a
complete set.



After looking at the images of the boxtop they missed Matador and Titan
I on the first set. Considering what that first set would cost, yours
truly got two of the second set, scratchbuilt a Regulus I, Snark, Mace,
Matador and Sprint and a slew of the small ones down to a Dragon; and
kitbashed a Peacekeeper, Trident, Titan I, Minuteman III, and Pershing
II from parts from the second kit and other things I had on hand.

Pat