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Would like to have a pic of that starter set, if possible.
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I really enjoyed going back and reading that thread again. It's amazing what we forget, and remember from only 6 years ago.
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The May 30, 1969 issue of The Launch Pad notes that Bill Lee's (K-36 designer) birthday is June 3. Yet another reason to launch your Saturns this spring and summer!
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I concentrated on the flying versions since the non flying version is linked in the thread. I updated the first post and plan to add box pictures later, please post pictures if you have good ones, Especially a pre-Damon K-36. Thanks!
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I've got a 1236 kit, still in the shrink wrap (Damon, unfortunately) - I had a pre-Damon K-36 kit but I sold it to another collector years ago.
I also have one of the 2157 limited edition that they sold at NARAM 52 (number 16 of 50), autographed by Vern Estes and Mike Dorffler (shortly before Mike died). PM me if you want photos. |
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I have one of the Mike Dorffler signed kits also. I think Vern was away from the booth when I visited with Mike. I think mine is #11. I had never met Mike, and spent some time talking to him in the Estes booth. I wish I would have peeled the shrink wrap off and had him sign the box. Sadly, Mike passed away about a month after NARAM-52. I’ll try to find the picture of Mike and me together in the booth.
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Lee, I think you'll find that there was no shrink wrap on that version of the Saturn V kit - at least on mine both Mike and Vern signed across the Saturn V image on the box. I'd met Mike ~ 40 years earlier (I lived in Pueblo and used to do stuff for/with Estes) but I'd never have recognized him and I'm sure he didn't remember me.
5x7, I got your message - I'm a bit busy prepping for NSL right now ( planning to launch four different Saturn V's - from the Estes RTF to my big 1/48th SHR Saturn) but I'll try to email you some photos before I leave. |
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Mine is definitely signed on shrink wrap. I had seen pictures of Mike in magazines, but I would never have recognized him. We live in Fort Collins, but mostly travel to Pueblo to fly with SCORE. A great club and a great launch site. My only wish was that it was a sod farm ... I’d do a lot less repairs on paint jobs.
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That's pretty much got it. K-36's clear plastic fins were a sandwich of two sheets joined along the edges with dope, and it slipped over the existing fin. At some point they switched to the later Centuri method of a single plastic fin that had slits which the existing fin threaded through, but I couldn't tell you which models or which year this happened. .
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I didn't realize (or I forgot) that Estes switched to the Centuri clear fin method. Was it the same die cut from Centuri? I've got some clear stock and was debating on whether to go with the old style sandwich or the Centuri style for my modified 2001 kit. I have a couple of Centuri fins, but can't find all four.
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