09-05-2010, 04:39 PM
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When Pigs Fly!
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Orlando, FL
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I went back and looked at the back cover of the 1967 catalog and the Big Bertha is not pictured in the "group shot."
The X-Ray and Farside 2 stage are the only yellow rockets in the group picture.
It seems Estes used those two for the individual catalog page pictures.
I compaired the gray catalog pictures of the two yellow rockets side by side with the Big Bertha illustration.
The Big Bertha looks a little lighter gray than the yellow rockets - every half tone picture inside the catalog is black and white.
As the Bertha is lighter than the yellow rockets, I would assume the base color is white!
This is just a guess. But if it were me, that's the way I'd go with the base color.
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