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3 Stage Ferry Rocket 1-288 Glencoe

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I have been searching the web for this historical model for a while and am glad to have found it. It is a re-release of the Glenco Werner von Braun multi-stage rocket popularised by Disney in the 50's. This design was to be placed in a 1075 mile high orbit to start the assembly of the space wheel. A little bit sloppy in the current casting but OK. It just required a little trimming with a modelers knife and was not too difficult to work with. I had an easier time with assembly as a small child, but had smaller and steadier fingers. Nice to paint and to own.

Glencoe's '3-Stage Ferry Rocket' model kit is a blast from the pre-Sputnik past, and an amazing survival from that period. The model was originally produced by Strombecker in the 1950s; the injection molds were obtained by Nick Argento, who runs Glencoe Models as pretty much a one-man endeavor, and he put the kit back into production. (He did the same with several other kits, all originally produced to promote Walt Disney's 'Man In Space' series on the DISNEYLAND TV show.) For those of us who've longed to own these dudes since we were tiny kids, Nick and Glencoe Models have done a huge favor.