Building Revell Apollo Saturn V 1:96

Welcome to the Forum You are making some Exellent Progress. I started the same kit over a year ago and never progressed past the engines. I was unhappy with the pre printed body tubes. But I did buy aftermarket decals and still have neglected the kit.

Watching your build makes me want to start working on it again...  I also built a Estes flying Saturn V about 5 years ago. It is a really super multi media kit that builds up really nice.. I was afraid to fly it though from all the hrs I had invested in it..

Keep posting as your doing a Fantastic Job and Nice Boats .

Hi, been thinking of building a Saturn v for a while now, so I was doing a little research on-line into the topic. Came arcoss your build, and wow how impressive does that look. I have not built a model insome 15-20 years or so, so not sure weather to have a go or not ( one thing for sure it would not look as good as yours).

Anyway, please keep the photos and the comments comming

 Regards

 Ash.

Before you get too far along, and depending on what your aims are with this build, you should know that the paint schemes and colors that Revell suggests are for pre-lunar launch vehicles and/or prototypes. the black bands got changed quite a bit. Check out some of these references:

http://www.apollosaturn.com/

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html

These will give a good start.

bayerische - Your making good progress and its looking good.  I am with you on the poor quality of the plastic castings, but then I have built limited run kits that make this one look like a dream.

I plan on getting back to building the Revell kit after I locate some styrene or suitiable pvc tubing for the body tubes.

Keep up the good work

That looks great. I always wanted to build that.

I was almost tempted to buy the Tamiya command module/lem model that they have out for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.

My ISS is on here somewhere. 

Keep is posted on your Saturn V, good to see your progress.

Hi Andreas.  Nice seeing your Saturn V build.  It’s inspired me to start in on mine. I picked one up a few years back for nostalgia sake but haven’t started it; now’s the time.  I built one before but that was back in 1968: I got it and the 48^th scale Apollo C/SM and LM kit for Christmas that year. Given the Apollo 8 mission and broadcast Christmas Eve, you can imagine how happy this 9 year old was with Santa the next morning.  I think I had them both built and flying my own moon missions before new years.     

I have been looking at all the after market stuff for it but I’m just going to have fun with the build, do it mostly stock except for stuff I have laying around the shop and in the “spare parts” bin.   Maybe I’ll post pictures of my progress as well.  Anyway, it’s been fun watching you put yours together.  Thanks for the inspiration.

- Craig  

Glad to hear Craig!

Well I've been having a break from building, partly because of a holiday trip, which included Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, and due to it being too cold to build in my garage, the heating is not enough.

Hopefully I'll be able to continue my build after a few weeks.

Andreas- I am considering one of these 1/96 Apollo/Saturn V Revell kits, and was wondering about the problem of how badly some of the parts are fitting together. Can you describe where the problems are, and how difficult it is to resolve the issues? I have some modeling skills, I recently built the 1/48 B-1A Lancer Bomber by Revell, and the Airfix 1/72 Concorde, and was happy with how both turned out, but don't want to get in over my head with this one!

How were the pre-marked styrene sheets for the fuel tanks? You said some of the adapter rings had to be rolled and cemented before use, how did that go?

Thanks!

Rusty

hi im new here

i have this model part built

got for my son 9 years ago

but have lost the instructions

have any of you got an scan of them

i could have as revell dont have them

on there site and dont answer my emails

thanks

kaz

Revell has an order sheet for past manuals:

http://www3.revell.com/catalog/products/Instruction_Sheet-860-11.html

Have you tried that?

Chris

WZ2

Revell has an order sheet for past manuals:

 

http://www3.revell.com/catalog/products/Instruction_Sheet-860-11.html

 

Have you tried that?

 

Chris

 

Revell has an order sheet for past manuals:

http://www3.revell.com/catalog/products/Instruction_Sheet-860-11.html

Have you tried that?

Chris

Hi,

If you are still interested, I may be able to help with a scan of the instructions.

Apollo