Missile garden, 1/100

[ringmaster]

Nuclear payload for New York and DC.

[Jan Kytop]

In the early 30s, the German army has recruited the young Von Braun to work towards missiles.
In 1933, he designed the A1 and then the A2 of 1.60 m that performs 2 successful flights atthe end of 1934.






The A3 was build in 1935 and performs extensive testing with major stability problems to solve. It cleared the ground of the future V2 (A4).





A2, A3, A4 together:

[Jan Kytop]

The Thor of 1957 is a US ballistic missile medium range capable of carrying a nuclear bomb on the London-Moscow distance. It will be rolled out in Britain in 1958.
It will result in a very large family of US launchers, the Delta rockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-17_Thor
Nielspapermodels and Eric Truax models.

The missile:






His first derivative, Thor Able, used for the lunar probe Pioneer1:

[Jan Kytop]

2 évolutions of the missile Thor:
Thor Able II Tiros and Thor burner:

[Deriachai]

Are these all rockets of your own design, or ones that you have found online?

[elliott]

Jan provides links, or at least the names of the websites, where he gets his models from. It might take a little digging but the thread is only 4 pages long, not like digging in Bruno's thread......

[Deriachai]

I see them now, I completely missed them before.

[Jan Kytop]

SS-4 Sandal is the russian IRBM of the Cuban Missile crisis.
Model available at Ecardmodels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-4_Sandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis







Above, the missile parade on Red Square, bottom, Russian cargo to Cuba, the missile is in the container;

[Doug J]

You know,looking at the model........scratch build with a paper towel tube maybe?

[luke strawwalker]

Originally Posted by Doug J

You know,looking at the model........scratch build with a paper towel tube maybe?

You can get model rocket paper tubing in a wide variety of sizes...

Later! OL J R