This basket case Mercury Skyrocket arrived with some other projects a few years back. I decided to at least make it look pretty and pretty complete. After removing the remaining paint I devised a new probe made from metal so that it could be displayed. I will investigate reproducing a plastic probe at a later date. The most difficult hurdle was making sure the decals were like the originals- small ! I find the Mercury toy airplanes a marvel of miniature casting engineering especially with the landing gear systems.
Tom,
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Mercury #419 Douglas Skyrocket
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Re: Mercury #419 Douglas Skyrocket
by edas » Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:06 pm
Here's one of the originals..
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