RocketFiles
Solidworks freelance designer
I came across in my old rocket box an unopened Estes Mercury Redstone model from the 70's... you can tell it's old because of the price!I I also recalled reading more than once that the capsule escape tower was a bear to build because of all the small wooden parts required to make the structure look like the real thing.
Seemed to me that a 3D printed tower might be a 3D file in which model builders would be interested. I created the CAD file from an image I found in a Google image search. I saved it out as an .STL file, pulled it into my Cura slicer, and was rewarded with a pretty good likeness of the real thing, I think.
You can go to Cults3D to download the model of the tower that you can print for your own Mercury-Redstone model....
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Seemed to me that a 3D printed tower might be a 3D file in which model builders would be interested. I created the CAD file from an image I found in a Google image search. I saved it out as an .STL file, pulled it into my Cura slicer, and was rewarded with a pretty good likeness of the real thing, I think.
You can go to Cults3D to download the model of the tower that you can print for your own Mercury-Redstone model....

Mercury Redstone Capsule Escape Tower
I came across in my old rocket box an unopened Estes Mercury Redstone model from the 70's... you can tell it's old because of the price!I I also recalled reading more than once that the capsule escape tower was a bear to build because of all the small wooden parts required to make the structure...
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