Mercury Launch Escape Tower Details

[Blast it Tom!]

Years ago, the late John Pursley built a museum quality, national award winning Mercury Redstone. Some pics in this thread. Post 5 has some good close-ups of the LES tower. Sadly, we lost John a few years ago,and I have been looking high and low for source material and details for that tower. There are extra connections and hoses or lines of some sort that aren't on the 1/35 Estes/Centuri Kit. And the pictures there are great, including decals that also could be scaled to go on that tower, but only exist (as far as I know) in the 1/12 MPC "Atomic City" kit. I'd love to know if the details are typical for all 3 legs or just one; which clock position the are in, etc, and how to orient the tower relative to the capsule. And I'd pay for a scan of those decals, I can't find the tower graphics anywhere.

I came to the scale forum to post these questions, as even @Buzz McDermott, who has much of John's materials, and was very gracious and helpful, is not able to locate this information.

I want to return my Mercury-Redstone to flight, and I'm probably 99% nuts to put that kind of detailing into a rocket that could crash, but I like scale details... thanks, anyone who can help.

 

[lakeroadster]

Years ago, the late John Pursley built a museum quality, national award winning Mercury Redstone. Some pics in this thread. Post 5 has some good close-ups of the LES tower. Sadly, we lost John a few years ago,and I have been looking high and low for source material and details for that tower. There are extra connections and hoses or lines of some sort that aren't on the 1/35 Estes/Centuri Kit. And the pictures there are great, including decals that also could be scaled to go on that tower, but only exist (as far as I know) in the 1/12 MPC "Atomic City" kit. I'd love to know if the details are typical for all 3 legs or just one; which clock position the are in, etc, and how to orient the tower relative to the capsule. And I'd pay for a scan of those decals, I can't find the tower graphics anywhere.

I came to the scale forum to post these questions, as even @Buzz McDermott, who has much of John's materials, and was very gracious and helpful, is not able to locate this information.

I want to return my Mercury-Redstone to flight, and I'm probably 99% nuts to put that kind of detailing into a rocket that could crash, but I like scale details... thanks, anyone who can help.

I used the Atomic City 1/12 MPC kit when I built my Mercury LES. I built my tower from scratch and still have the Atomic City tower. What are you in search of?​

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Hi guy, thanks! If you check out the pictures in this post, you'll see additional lines, including what looks like a hose and probably conduits for controls. As well, there are graphics - insignia, stencils, etc. that are certainly reproducible at the 1/35 scale, but are never included.

I have my spiffy 3D printed capsule and tower and want to make this as nice as possible.

I sure appreciate anything you've got... like I said, I don't know it the details shown by Pursley are typical for all 3 legs or only one... there seems to be no info out there about them but what he had...

 

[Bravo52]

I'll send you a note. I assume you mean something along these lines???

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Well, this is the result! Thanks again to all who helped!