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Cool! I've got a piece of an original Nike Ajax kit given to me by a childhood friend. I haven't done anything with it. The decals are missing and I can't make my own white decals that look good so I haven't done anything with it. I'd be happy to see either the original or an upscale....or both! I flew my Nike Apache a lot when I first built it. It has lots of pavement rash from taking it down to Huntsville (60 miles from my in-laws) when HARA used to fly at the old airport. A new hangar queen would be nice, without having to scratchbuild. I'm also happy to see the ASM. It was one I always intended to buy, but never did.
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Thank you, John, for bringing back that 1:10 scale Nike-Apache kit, too! It can also be “builder-modded” if desired (to use gap-staged ignition of a 13 mm mini motor in the Apache second stage, including streamer recovery of the Nike by employing Evan “Buzz” Nau’s gap-staged lower stage recovery techniques). Plus, as SEL pointed out in Reply #8 above, the Nike-Apache kit can be used for kitbashing other scale sounding rockets (the Bullpup-Apache and Nike-ASP are just two of numerous examples). As well, I too “second” bringing back the Nike-Ajax kit (in addition to its intrinsic appeal in and of itself, it would also have kitbashing potential—a Nike-Orion [using a three-finned “Army green” Nike with ‘cut-down’ fins] is just one such example).
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