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Old 10-20-2017, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
...And found these.

Here are three MPC kits that were part of that 'find' around 1990.
While I found MPC kits in an out-of-the-way hobby shop near Las Vegas,
these kits were from a hobby shop in the Los Angeles area.

I bought a couple of each kit and opened the ones where the packaging had been damaged.

In the case of the Lunar Patrol, the cutting pattern for the parts was printed on the balsa sheet. Centuri did this with some of their kits too.

Well, since the boxes are opened I guess I will just have to build them.

I don't know about the paint schemes. Pink fins on the Flare Patriot?
The Flare Patriot's fins look lavender--like a lady unicorn's eye shadow--to me. Also:

The "missing" MPC parts (those that Quest [you can see their parts here: http://www.questaerospace.com/Model...06_3447166.aspx ] doesn't have, such as the Pegasus MK II's T20 size plastic fin unit [MPC's Pioneer 1 also used it] and the Lunar Patrol gliders' T15 size nose cones' *bases*), could be reproduced by either of our "resident" rockets/parts 3D printers (Aerobotix http://www.shapeways.com/shops/cesp...0#more-products and Boyce Aerospace Hobbies http://boyceaerospacehobbies.com/ ). All of the MPC kits can be seen *here* (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/74avicat.html ).
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