Convair Space Shuttle Craft,by Revell in? scale.

[jetboy]

HI,Thought you might fancy some more of revell,s brill nostalgia.though this kit,is futuristic in design,it was designed by one of werner von braun,s team[v2,apollo,saturn fame],after the war they were absorbed into American society under operation "paperclip"and Kraft A Ehricke joined the convair co,this and various other designs by von braun,wily ley,s were released in the late fifties and early sixtie,s as what they thought the future would be?..so this is a 1959 issue mould re rereleased in 96.a design by Kraft,as a shuttle for transport to the orbiting space stations,all these designer,s promised would be orbiting the earth by the70,s?...Looking at it ,its really not a million miles away from a shuttle...anyway bathe in nostalgia,and the horrribillllllll. turquoisy plastic.......cheers Don

by the way,the spiel gives the height as 130 ft,but no scale?

The box

box images of it working

contents,shade your eyes?

whats included

main shuttle body

the shuttle

tail end

engines

Base and ground/shuttle crew

rough idea of size

engines closer

crew again

underside of stand/base with 1959 mould date

decals

history

instructions

well enjoy your wallow in the fiftie,s cheers Don

[Pete in Lincs]

You'll need some good primer to cover that up!

Nice concept for its time though.

I remembered that decades ago I had the von Braun Space station

hanging from my bedroom ceiling.

Wonder what that would be worth now.

Pete

[jetboy]

Hi pete,hanging from your bedroom ceiling ,i would think the value would be negligable,remove the crown/berger paint[or was that just me,that used them?],no if boxed and unmade,who knows,i know the first revell space station,goes for thousands?....IF only hindsight?.......cheers Don