Ron Bell Posted August 6, 2025 Report Posted August 6, 2025 I have two questions about this as I work on filing all the mold seams off the parts, which are many, seams and parts. 1. The kit would have you put this big "US ARMY" decal down the side of the missile, but I can't find any photos of the real missile with such markings. Are they correct? 2. Does anyone make a 1/110 model of the Mercury Redstone other than the old, now collector's priced, Revell one? It was launched from the same complex and might look kind a cool instead of the "C". I know you can get the Revell Redstone model as it was re-issued many times, but I believe there were some pretty significant changes made when it was used for the Mercury program, plus I'd still need the capsule.
Egilman Posted August 9, 2025 Report Posted August 9, 2025 (edited) Hi Ron, Question #1 YES, the early Launches of Redstone missiles were ran by ABMA...That stands for Army Ballistic Missile Agency out of Redstone Arsenal Alabama, It was Run by General Medaris and Werner Von Braun was it's technical director.... They were all labeled ARMY in some fashion... Question #2 NO, the old Revell model is the only game in town unfortunately... Originally it was built for Redstone launches at LC-4 but was moved to LC-5 shortly afterwards... It represents the first of the Three Gantries that were at LC-5/6 and LC-26 eventually becoming known as the LC-5 Gantry... After Gus Grissom's launch, it was folded and left sitting for a few years before it was scrapped... The Revell model only casually resembles the actual Gantry and yes it needs significant modifications to make it match the actual gantry even for the early years before Nasa altered it even more for Mercury Redstone... Gunters Space Page has a listing of all the Redstone and redstone variation launches for both ABMA and NASA... https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_fam/redstone.htm Hope it helps... Elmer Edited August 12, 2025 by Egilman Add a missing word. improve the alliteration... 1
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