posted 06-16-2024 04:43 PM               

Announcing our next special run: Revell's Jupiter-C in 1/110 scale! This kit, exclusive to MegaHobby, is 14.5" long when completed, and comes with the movable gantry as well.

We expect this to arrive by October — enter your email address on the product page to be notified when it is here!

posted 01-20-2025 05:04 PM               

This is a versatile kit, offering the chance to build it with various launch vehicles also offered by Revell in 1/110th scale - Redstone, Mercury-Redstone, and Jupiter IRBM. The latter can be modified into a Juno II.

How about a model representing the Jupiter that launched Able and Baker? I have seen some nicely modified kits depicting MR-3. I have thought of that but am probably going to install an early Redstone in place of the Jupiter C.

EDIT: I discovered the Revell Redstone and Jupiter (IRBM) are not 1/110th scale — maybe around 1/120th. The Jupiter does not fit on the launch pedestal, though the Redstone barely does. The latter's diameter should be the same as the Jupiter C if it were the same scale, but is not. The Jupiter C can be modified to become a Mercury-Redstone, though, by trimming off some of the upper section of the "C" and using a 1/110th scale Mercury spacecraft from the, "Everything is Go," Mercury-Atlas Revell/Atlantis kit. Convert the Atlas to an early Atlas A or B.

posted 03-05-2025 12:29 AM               

I found that some of the Jupiter C would need to be trimmed off - maybe 1/2-inch, but don't recall the exact amount - to build the Mercury-Redstone. Anyway, I suggest anyone wanting to build the Mercury conduct their own research. Look at photos of it on the pad to see at what level the spacecraft is relative to the where the white room is on the gantry.

There were a lot of changes made to the gantry for Mercury-Redstone flights, so lots of photos are needed to build an accurate model. Furthermore, there were changes between MR-1A and MR-3 as revealed by photos.

posted 03-05-2025 09:55 PM               

The Jupiter C model in the kit, though, seems too tall (without upper stages and payload). I placed a 1/110 scale Mercury spacecraft on top and it just looked wrong. I also used the dimensions given on the websites I listed earlier and thought somewhere around a 1/2-inch, give or take (forgotten the exact figure), needed to be removed from the top of the main body of the Jupiter C to convert to a Mercury-Redstone. In the end, I decided to build it as a Jupiter C, so did no further research in regard to building an MR-3 model.

I don't dispute the diagram, but not completely sure the Jupiter C is scaled exactly 1/110. I've read the Revell (now Atlantis) Atlas is one scale in height and another in width. I haven't checked; it is what it is. The point is the old kits weren't necessarily highly accurate.