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View Poll Results: Which was the better or 'sexier' Pershing... not refering to 'Blackjack' Pershing!
Pershing 1/1A was the best! Rugged and put fear into the Soviets! 33 71.74%
Pershing II was the wave of the future if Armaggedon, this is the platform to do it with! 13 28.26%
No there is another I favor even above the Pershing 1/1A/2! 0 0%
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Old 07-28-2011, 04:04 PM
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I have a small protest on this poll. It says I have already voted on this poll, but I have not. On the other hand the 1A is a 3 to 1 favorite at the moment and I'm pretty sure it is going to end up with a spread like this in the end.

I am not sure why people are comparing Real Life Performance with which one they would prefer to see as a kit but I guess everyone makes decisions based on difference reasoning. I know the performance of the M-50 Honest John was much better then the M-30 Honest John but I believe a poll on these two version would show the people prefer the M-30 version.


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John,

I personally would be quite happy should Estes decide to kit either Pershing!
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The Pershing IA has an advantage over the Pershing II as a flying scale model: Having fins on both of its stages, it would lend itself to staging (either gap-staging or electronically-initiated staging). The body tube in the kit need not come in two sections for this to be done; interested modelers could cut the body tube into two sections to create the two stages.
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The Pershing IA has an advantage over the Pershing II as a flying scale model: Having fins on both of its stages, it would lend itself to staging (either gap-staging or electronically-initiated staging). The body tube in the kit need not come in two sections for this to be done; interested modelers could cut the body tube into two sections to create the two stages.


Ok... you COULD, but WHY?? I couldn't really see the point to this other than getting mission points in competition... and if you were REALLY interested in that, you could do the same with a Pershing II using flip-out clear fins on the second stage...

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Ok... you COULD, but WHY?? I couldn't really see the point to this other than getting mission points in competition... and if you were REALLY interested in that, you could do the same with a Pershing II using flip-out clear fins on the second stage...
B'cuz the Pershing IA -doesn't- need flip-out clear fins on the second stage...
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Nice meeting you at Burger King JR! (NARAM 53).

I picked up Sandman's Pershing 1A at NARAM 53... I will make it into a two stager... it just looks DEADLY!

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