Revell 1/96 Saturn V WIP 4-08-09

Thomas -

Superb work you did on the Saturn 5. One of the best I've seen.

Amazing details in all the photos associated with this thread!!! GREAT ideas for my 1/96 scale. Speaking of costs, I had to go $200 on Ebay for the first one I bid on, but the guy was a jip and PayPal refunded my money. Kept looking and found two within two days of each other and bid on both....and WON both!!! One I picked up for $118 and the other for $135. In checking out both kits as I received them, I found that one kit had the LM, CSM, and all parts in that bag molded in gray plastic as is shown in the early images of this thread. The other kit has the SAME parts molded in the same white plastic as the rest of the kits pieces. ODD!

Still, its my second since my first as a kid in the 8th grade in 1968, and this one is a real challenge with this sheet material for the main body pieces of each stage. This one is great practice for the later build of the other kit sometime in the future when I've built up some better assembly and modeling skills. SHEESH, what great work folks do on this stuff. I can't touch anything like these yet, but By God I'm trying.....

Bob

Thanks for your interest and the praise!  Pictures of the building from 2nd stage:

Original Revell

Cut out of different parts

A punched ring was appropriated

Original Revell engine

Test alignement of engine, PE- and Resin parts can also  be seen

The first wires

Ready

from the inside

The top of 2stage

After grinding and the first paint job "rust"

With varnishes yellow thinly about that

PE parts

Pipes and Cables

Finished second stage

Standing displays

Greetings from Germany

Thomas

Outstanding work.....

Please keep posting detail pictures.  I love this tyoe of workmanship.

Cheers

Pictures from S-II and S-IV:

Greetings from Germany,

Thomas

Sorry for my bad english.

I would like to introduce myself briefly: My name is Thomas, come from East Germany and am interested since my childhood in American space. Particularly for the space shuttle. I built these Saturn-V on the occasion of the 40. anniversary of the moon-landing.

Yes, the top is scratchbuild:

The engines are original Revell, I however much wire cultivated:

The bulkhead deck is from Newware.cz. I bored still further holes inside. There there is no rivets, only the plates is. Rivets I painted with a black pin.

It is, as if one stands in Cape Canaveral under the rocket:

The display stands is also scratchbuild. I have however no pictures of the assembly.

The mounting plates for the cover of the engines are also from Newware.cz

More Pictures from the 1st stage:

Greetings from Germany,

Thomas

A little preview for the final assembly of mySaturn-V, which is also a copy of that one at the Cape Canaveral. I used the Revell-Kit plus resin and PE-Parts of Newware. Interested in more Pictures?

Regards from Germany

Thomas

dcaponell - I have a copy of it hid away in my Refrences.

I got mine at Hobby Lobby with the 40% off coupon so it was only about $60.  Here are a couple of photos of how I laid mine out.  It's gone now.  I donated it to a United Way Auction.

Sorry I couldn't find the photo with the Apollo Spacecraft.  I used Glenn's RealSpace Models resin CSM. BPC, and LES and they are gems.  I'll see if I can't find the missing photo

I still have this model from when I was a kid.  It is a great model if for nothing else than size alone.  I had modified the Apollo CSM to a block 2 design and added launch connect interfaces on the surface.  There is a worth while information stream in Space Model Systems Saturn V clinic.

I just bought another on eBay myself and am exploring replacing the wraps with PCV tubing.  I was also looking at potentially filling the stages with a low expansion foam to give it some heft.  I saw this in one of the artlices in the magazine that someone did with aircraft and it caught my interest.  I am also building one in the Skylab configuration....all I need is time and money : )

 Enjoy the kit!  It is great and let us know your progress.

Thanks Summit, I bought mine off of ebay for just over 100 dollars, the box had 25th 1969-1994.  I did a dry test fit today, and bulit up the model. It does measure up just past 46 inchs, the only fit problem I has was with the thin plactic sections that you rap around in the four sections.  Heres what she looks like in the dry test fit.