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Topic: Everyday Astronaut 1:100 rocket models
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Jon Long
Member Posts: 11
From: Lake Orion, Michigan, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 04-11-2023 02:35 PM
   
Everyday Astronaut has a 1:100 Falcon 9 model. The website indicates mostly metal construction with some impressive looking detail on the landing legs, grid fins, detachable stages, etc.Pricey at $325, just curious if anyone has one and what the quality/opinion on accuracy is?  |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3199
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 04-17-2023 07:07 PM
Mine arrived today. It is not as detailed as a plastic type kit but more than a contractor model. It is very heavy, and the size and detail warrant the cost. I like it but at that that price point I will not buy a second one. I would like to have displayed one in the launch configuration and one with first stage landing. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54941
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-21-2025 11:47 AM
collectSPACE Grow your scale rocket garden: Everyday Astronaut's Falcon, Mercury modelsLooking at the SpaceX Falcon 9 standing on the launch pad today (July 21), it can be difficult to imagine that the rocket that started U.S. human spaceflight, the Mercury-Redstone, differed so greatly in dimension. Astronauts who ride atop the modern commercial booster almost have a head start into space even before the engines ignite. To get into their Dragon capsules they have to ascend almost three times the height of the converted missile that lifted off on a suborbital mission for the last time 64 years ago on this day. Tim Dodd, who goes by the online moniker "Everyday Astronaut," wanted a way to appreciate that span in scale.  |
mike_nz
Member Posts: 18
From: Canterbury, New Zealand
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 07-21-2025 04:26 PM
Has anyone got one of the Mercury sets yet? I'm particularly keen to have a Mercury-Atlas in my display case. I have Dragon Space's Mercury-Redstone in 1:72 scale already (is it wishful thinking that we'll ever get a completed manned booster line-up in one scale?!). I see the intent of Everyday Astronaut is to produce a full rocket garden, which is great, but I'm not holding my breath. I also note that the UNITED STATES lettering along the length of the Redstone booster is very narrow and doesn't seem right - it's a rather obvious thing that jumps out at me, which is a shame for the price point. Are the production models like this? |
Ben
Member Posts: 1942
From: United States
Registered: May 2000
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posted 07-21-2025 06:06 PM
There are also way too many black and white roll pattern stripes at the top of the Redstone, and the bottom of the Atlas should not be white. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54941
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-21-2025 07:29 PM
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Originally posted by mike_nz:
Are the production models like this?
The Mercury set has been shipping since May. The set photographed for our article was not a prototype. It looks like there are maybe one and a half extra black stripes per "side" of the Redstone's roll pattern. I count 5.5 being visible from any given angle of the model and on NASA photos of the rocket, four face the camera. The thin lettering is less obvious in person, at least to me. As for the Atlas skirt, the Mercury-Atlas in the rocket garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is painted white. |
David C
Member Posts: 1474
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 07-22-2025 03:21 PM
As much as I appreciate Tim’s channel, these models don’t do it for me. Firstly, I think 1/100 is a real bad scale choice. It doesn’t go with the typical “big airplane scales” of 1/200 and 1/144. It doesn’t go with the most popular small airplane scale of 1/72. It doesn’t go with Bandai’s excellent 1/144 Shuttle and Saturn Vs. It doesn’t go with Dragon’s 1/400 space series (although those are too small for me).Then there’s the model’s themselves. At those prices I don’t expect to see those complete red ring sections attaching the LET to the Mercury capsule. To me, these look like toys, not scale models. But if you love ‘em, enjoy. Just not for me. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3199
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 07-23-2025 02:14 PM
First let me say I appreciate everyone's opinion so please consider mine.
I have a number of scales for the early space human flown vehicles.
In my office it is 1/200 (limited space for space). At home we have 1/72 scale.  Then the biggie, all the way to 1/48 scale.  Now for the 1/100 scale discussion. I have collected these various scales over the years, but I must say the scale I really wanted was, in fact, 1/100. The reason behind this statement is it becomes a large enough scale to be impressive for the Saturn V and IB at the same time not so big, like the 1/72 and 1/48, to allow display in a typical collection. The 1/200 feels too small to express the power of the later Saturn vehicles. Also, in 1/100 there is the opportunity to add an STS I have both 1/72 and 1/100 full stack STS but they consume too much space to be displayed with the others. The good news on the 1/100 scale is there are some already available such as the Estes kits for the Saturn V /IB and Little Joe II as well as some commercial models available as well. For me I have a series of 1/100 scale Gulfstream aircraft and Topping models as that was the go too scale back then. Included in the photo below is also the Titan III with MOL and Dynasoar in the 1/100 scale as well. All of that to say I welcome the new 1/100 scale opportunity and as when I can see a Gemini-Titan come up as well.  |
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