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Project Vanguard satellite reissue!

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Nice!!!

This is the first I've seen about it being rereleased.

Who owns the Hawk molds?

Back in the day Hawk was always an interesting kit maker. We ranked them up there with Revell and Monogram. Just hard to come by. I don't know if they had small production runs or just weren't carried in my area. Also not much variety. Mostly airplanes and a few space related items. Later they had the Weird-Ohs line of kits.
 
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With some research some modelers will probably add details.Always good to see some old kits being reissued.I wonder if there are other interesting kits that were made by Hawk which would be interesting to see being reissued.;)
 
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Talked to Jamie Hood at iHobby and he confirmed the reissue of the kit. I don't remember when he said it would be out.

I also built this kit back in the 60s and am excited about its reissue.

As mentioned above, I wonder what other Hawk and Lindberg "jewels" Round 2 has in their warehouse???


Rob
Iwata Padawan
 
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Hawk started out doing wood kits in the 30s and made some of the (if not the first) modern plastic kit, the Curtiss Army racer in the mid 1940s. Their earlier kits reflected the original small solid wood kit line - roughly 1/48 kits of famous race planes and some small fighter plane kits like the Corsair. Hawk did some very simple jet kits too like a Grumman Panther and XF-91, which Aurora copied. Some of the later Hawk airplanes were pretty nice, like their P-51 and P-47. But, for the most part, Hawk tended to do smaller, simpler, and cheaper kits. In the early 70s they were absorbed by Testors, who also picked up ICM's molds. Back in the day, Hawk had a somewhat diverse range of mostly small, simple airplane, car and ship kits, with a few space kits and the Wierd Ohs figures. Their largest kit by far was the Graff Zeppelin.
 
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The Vanguard Satellite was one of my mostest favorite models as a child! I still remember the fun of holding it up and 'flying' it around the room making Sputnik sounds (or as von Braun pronounced it, SPOOTnik).

When getting back into modeling in around '04 I really wanted one when I saw it on eBay, but a .50 kit at a 250,000,000% mark-up....nah, passed. So I'm personally thrilled to see this getting the Frankenstein Monster treatment!!!

YEAH BABY!!

Carl-
 
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I know this is weird :lol: but I can still remember buying the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Its was at a Rexall Drug Store late Saturday afternoon June 29th 1968. I'd gone to check on new Marvel comics my friend had told me they just got in. I was afraid they would not be there when we returned from vacation. I had to spend some of the money I'd been saving. We always left on July 1st. Back in those days most stores closed daily at 6:00 PM and were closed on Sunday.
 
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I don't see how this kit could be 1/5 scale.
The original Vanguard was called "the grapefruit satellite" when it was launched because it was about that size, and only weighed a few pounds. I was only 22 at the time, but I still remember that vividly.
 
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You're right Trek Ace....I dug this info up...
On March 17, 1958, Vanguard 1 became the second artificial satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit by the United States. It was the first solar-powered satellite. Just 152 mm (6 in) in diameter and weighing just 1.4 kg (3 lb), Vanguard 1 was described by then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as, "The grapefruit satellite

Denis
 
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I had one of these, the Explorer which balanced on its display stand using metal weights... I remember putting it in motion on its' stand and it seemed to defy gravity the way it would twirl around. I'd get another one of these in a heartbeat :thumbsup:





Denis
 
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Note that the HAWK kit is not really a model of the actual satillite. Its pretty conjectural. So to say its one size in particular is rather moot. I don't know if its 1/5 or not but its not 1/1. The whole thing with the probes is about 2 feet across (10 inches for each probe and 5" for the satillite itself.
 
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Like spawndude said, those were really exciting times to be a kid. Rockets and spaceships are you kidding me? Hell yes!!!!

After really getting into the early NASA programs about 10 yrs. ago, I discovered that the Explorer satellites should have had THREE solar panels as apposed to the two! Still, would love to have one.

I loved ALL the real space kits and at one time or another had them all. I would love to get them again (outside of eBay prices of course). So I was really, really excited to see the Vanguard satellite coming out again. If it gets axed, I'll cry like a little kid I'm afraid. :rolleyes:

Nick Argento at Glencoe is working on the Vanguard rocket molds now trying to get them in shape enough to punch some out. FINGERs CROSSED!! Now the satellite too? WOW....

Now, if someone would just come out with a Wernher von Bruan kit, life would be complete....

Carl-
 
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