pat@pyuxqq.UUCP (Pat M. Iurilli) (01/30/86)
Does anyone know where I can acquire a preassembled model of the
Shuttle with the detachable liquid fuel rocket and solid rocket
boosters like the one that the media uses for demonstrations, which
looks to be about 2 feet long. Any info you can provide will be
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Pat M. Iurilli Bell Communications Research Piscataway, NJ
{allegra, ihnp4, topaz}!pyuxqq!patbl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) (02/04/86)
> Does anyone know where I can acquire a preassembled model of the > Shuttle with the detachable liquid fuel rocket and solid rocket > boosters like the one that the media uses for demonstrations, which > looks to be about 2 feet long. Any info you can provide will be > appreciated. Thanks in advance. > -- > Pat M. Iurilli Bell Communications Research Piscataway, NJ > {allegra, ihnp4, topaz}!pyuxqq!pat Try your local toy store or hobby shop. You can buy the models in all sizes.
wmartin@brl-smoke.UUCP (02/06/86)
In article <3255@hplabsb.UUCP> bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) writes: >> Does anyone know where I can acquire a preassembled model of the ^^^^^^^^^^^^ (emphasis added) >> Shuttle with the detachable liquid fuel rocket and solid rocket >> boosters like the one that the media uses for demonstrations, which >> looks to be about 2 feet long. Any info you can provide will be >> appreciated. Thanks in advance. >> Pat M. Iurilli Bell Communications Research Piscataway, NJ > >Try your local toy store or hobby shop. You can buy the models in all >sizes. Unless life has changed drastically since I bought and built hundreds of plastic models, I'm afraid this pointer to "your local toy or hobby shop" is wrong. Note the emphasis I added above -- the originator wanted a *preassembled* model that could be handled like the media types use. This probably is not some Revell or Monogram commercial plastic model kit that has been assembled by the NBC art department (or the other networks' or stations' equivalents) -- it is probably solid and not a thin plastic shell, so it will withstand the handling it will get on-camera. I would suppose that these models are built by the "model shop" sections of places like Rockwell, who do this sort of thing for engineering reasons (building wind-tunnel models, etc.), make props for the advertising department, and give models to the appropriate Senators and gov't bigwigs for them to have on their desks or credenzas. It might be possible that a local hobby shop would have a model kit and a list of names of skilled builders who could be paid to assemble and finish the model for you, and maybe they could foam-fill parts of the model to give it solidity and rigidity, but that would be just a chance. I would expect you really would have to buy such a thing from one of the aforementioned "model shops" (I also recall there being some of these that work independently, as subcontractors or on a job-shop basis) and it will probably cost $200 or more for a single one. Will