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01-08-2011, 10:56 PM
blackshire
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timorley
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Here's a link to an online historical Centuri display I found and want to share for the Smithsonian:
http://160.111.252.58/collections/c...showrecords=all
I found something unusual in the NASM's Centuri kit collection. Their Micron kit (see:
http://160.111.252.58/collections/a...id=A19930698000
) has the same "helical checkerboard" roll pattern decal (printed in red) as the Centuri Snipe Hunter (see:
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/79cen012.html
), instead of the straight black roll pattern decal shown in Micron illustrations in the Centuri catalogs (see:
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...01/701cen6.html
). Since the NASM's Micron kit is the earlier version with a balsa nose cone (as is Semroc's "Retro-Repro" Micron kit), Semroc
already
has a "helical checkerboard" roll pattern decal (from their "Retro-Repro" Snipe Hunter kit, see:
http://www.semroc.com/Store/scripts...s.asp?SKU=KV-51
) that would be historically authentic if they also included it in their Micron kit.
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