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Viking lander scale model, Tiny, but nice!
Airbag
post Apr 19 2009, 10:40 PM
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I was at NEAF yesterday and happened to come across this tiny (about 1 inch across) but very detailed scale model of a Viking lander (complete with small "Martian soil base"), fact sheet and "collectors cards". The package also included a small dark green glass sphere (marble sized); purpose unknown. Maybe it *is* just a marble! This was just one in a series of miniatures of various spacecraft so maybe aimed at kids but this Viking lander was by far the best of the ones they had there and believe me I looked all over.

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Also had the brands "Arclight" and "Kaiyodo" on the back of the box.

Unrelated, some booths were also selling tiny fragments of purported Moon rock and Mars rock (via meteorites) for $35-$50 a fleck. Seemed neat, but I didn't buy any as how would you ever know it was really what it claimed it was?

Airbag

PS NEAF was very good as usual!
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- Airbag   Viking lander scale model   Apr 19 2009, 10:40 PM
- - PhilCo126   Just wanted to compare the scale of these mini mod...   Apr 20 2009, 07:30 AM
|- - Airbag   News flash! My "Viking" found life ...   May 10 2009, 04:09 PM
|- - vk3ukf   Removed full in line quote of previous post - Mod ...   May 23 2009, 03:09 PM
- - tty   The "Japanese version of the Me 163 rocket pl...   May 23 2009, 06:17 PM
- - vk3ukf   Hi tty, thanks for the name on the Japanese rocket...   May 24 2009, 09:23 AM

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