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Old 11-09-2017, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by PeterAlway
The 1/100 Vostok had the option of being built for Sputnik 2, not Sputnik 1. Different nose shape and internal details in the nose.

Peter Alway
Thank you for confirming my "temples tingle," Peter. My copy of "Rockets of the World" (in which you depicted both the Sputnik 1 and 2 vehicles, which I couldn't picture in detail in my mind) is packed away at the moment, but the nose profile of the model's optional "Sputnik nose," and the arrangement of the internal chrome "satellite ball" and its associated chrome parts, didn't look quite right for Sputnik 1 to me, but I deferred to the kit's text. The internal satellite parts didn't look quite right for Sputnik 2 either (based on the drawings and museum replicas of it that I've seen), but I figured that MPC may have had to proceed with incomplete or provisional scale data on it, or that the model's size may have forced part production compromises (the satellite-mounting truss structure inside their Titan IIIC's payload fairing doesn't look quite like any that I've seen in pictures, either).
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