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06-05-2017, 07:12 AM
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Mercury Atlas painting question
The Estes Mercury Atlas is finished all bright and shiny, but as I look through old photos, it looks like not all the Merc-Atlases were so polished. It looks to me like some of them had a white body. Is that true? Or is it just a trick of the lighting in those particular photos?
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06-05-2017, 08:57 AM
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Some good photos of the all-natural metal Atlas booster:
http://www.siloworld.net/CONST/Atla...eum/page__3.htm A bit of scrolling will be in order.
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06-08-2017, 12:56 AM
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Neet page. I 'd never known there were Atlas silos in north Idaho. I'd known there was a wing in southern Idaho, and a few years ago I was surprised to find out that a silo was only about 15 miles SE of Boise, just off the interstate. later... Oh wow, that is a great site. I always thought the site near Boise was Atlas, turns out it was Titan I. Wish there was an Atlas museum like the Titan museum in Tucson. Last edited by vcp : 06-08-2017 at 02:04 AM.
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06-05-2017, 10:22 AM
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That makes sense. So I shouldn't paint one white unless I fill it with dry ice to get that nice vapor plume around it. Thanks for the pics, John.
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06-05-2017, 10:38 AM
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There have been discussions in scale competitions on whether to do portions in white to simulate frost. I don't compete so I have no clue whether it gained points or took them away.
You can see the sheet metal under the frost in this shot. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...C_1961%29_1.jpg
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06-05-2017, 12:01 PM
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I painted my scratch built so it wouldn't show finger prints
 Plus I didn't have the shiny mylar...Soyuz is the same way...you have to decide whether to model it sitting on the pad empty or in launch configuration.
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06-05-2017, 07:17 PM
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Personally, for maximum "scalishness", rather than painting the booster and reducer I would wrap it with strips of chrome Monokote adhesive film.
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