LHS has a 1:32 Nike missile for $20. Excluding the people how out of place do you think this model would look on an O scale layout ?
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I doubt anyone would notice the difference: how many know how big a Nike really is: a missile looks like a missile. You could use 1:48 people instead and if anyone noted the scale difference of the missile just explain its the special extra-large Nike made for very high-altitude shots.
If you like it, buy it! These are toys afterall.
I'd buy it and I'm sure it will look just fine.
---Greg
I used a old Revell Nike kit and built a car for it. It's a little out of scale but I think it looks fine. Don
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Do you have a picture of the model? Don
Missile's are like other things............Bigger is always Better............
Missiles come in all different sizes. Like wing mounted Sidewinders to Scud missiles (as big as telephone poles). So it should ok.
Rick
This is a Revel re-issue of an old Renwall kit. As Lee noted, most people never got to stand up close and personal with the real thing so the side issue is kind of moot. You can't do this with all of the Renwall kits of that era as they included truck/track mountings and that tended to give away the size difference.
There are kits of both the Nike Ajax (single engine booster) and the Nike Hercules (cluster of four). The Hercules is a 1/40 scale kit while the Ajax is 1/32. The Hercules was a larger missile (almost 40 feet long vs 32 feet for the Ajax). The two models may be about the same length.
You could always shoehorn it in. Just do it!
Michael if it's this Nike I bought 4 of the kits for my Nike base. No one is going to notice that it's 1:32.
The booster for the Hercules were four Ajax boosters strapped together. I was MTR (missile tracking radar) operator for three years. Went to White Sands three times to fire out the missiles. Exciting stuff for a 21 year old. That's why one is on my layout. That print on the Ajax box would never happen. No one was top side when they were fired. Don
It'll work. The Fort Mac Military Museum had one and they're pretty big. Another big one was the SNARK, a predecessor to the modern cruise missile.
