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1/48 scale Saturn 5
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 4, 2004 12:53 PM
Hi there!
I started to built a 1/48 scale Saturn 5! Is there anybody out there, who already finished one and can give me some hints? My main problems are F1-engine and the stringers! Thanks!
Chris
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 8, 2004 11:03 PM
try checking out http://www.ricksternbach.com/SatV/Saturn_V_Clinic.html should help ya out
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 11, 2004 6:20 AM
Where do you get a 1/48 scale Saturn V ? Are you scratch building ?
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:41 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by drdrdo

Where do you get a 1/48 scale Saturn V ? Are you scratch building ?


I started with the finished CSM Model from "Space Voyagers" in 1/48, then I found a downloadable 1/48 scale Saturn V paper model. So the idea was born!! But I was afraid that it wouldn´t be stable enough, so I bought a 20cm diameter tube
( http://www.einecke-online.com/pages/p-kgrohre.asp )
for SI-C and SII, and a friend of mine made a wooden S-IVB with cone interstage and LM-shroud. I also found downloadable Saturn V decals from Estes, which I´ll plot out on adhesive foil. Now I´m working on details, such as stringers, F1, vents, ullage rockets, etc....
Due to I´m a student, all should be low budget, but not looking too much "self-made"!
Can anyone help me with details?
Thanks
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:45 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by stryker710

try checking out http://www.ricksternbach.com/SatV/Saturn_V_Clinic.html should help ya out


Well, my Clinic pages are a bit out of date, or rather, stale, and should be updated sometime in the next month or so. I can't claim to have a lot of experience yet with 1/48 on the Saturn V, as I'm testing a few things in 1/96, but I do have future plans to build a 1/48 beast.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:25 AM
here is a link for a 1/48 http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/saturnvst_1.htm
there is also another one out there....dont remember what the link is though. i saw it a while back....he even built a LUT for it.

try googling it you might find it.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:33 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by infimurf

here is a link for a 1/48 http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/saturnvst_1.htm
there is also another one out there....dont remember what the link is though. i saw it a while back....he even built a LUT for it.

try googling it you might find it.



Dave Gianakos built a 1/34 scale Saturn V and LUT originally as a flying model, but today the beast is on display at NASM.

Rick
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 12:00 PM
Hi,

my humble efforts on the 1/48 Saturn V can be seen at http://spacemodels.homepage.dk

The site has pictures of the progress to give an impression of how the thing is built.

Martin
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 12:34 PM
have you seen this one:

http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/0401sf/

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Posted by mhvink on Thursday, May 5, 2005 2:45 AM
Chris, where on the Estes site did you find the downloadable decals. I scoured the website with no luck.

Mike
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:21 PM
You may be able to find a down loadable copy of the decals at this link:

http://www.dars.org/jimz/k-36.htm

I don't know how it would turn out if you printed it in color on decal sheet but I did blow up one of his prints to put on a model rocket and it worked fairly well.

Good luck!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 15, 2005 3:44 PM
I have a 1/1 scale Saturn Five in my back yard.

Here come those men in the white suits again! Laugh [(-D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 16, 2005 8:48 PM
I thought you guys might be interested in seeing the 1/4 scale Saturn V we built as a class prank in January. Unfortunately, the cops wouldn't let us mount the engines as they could have killed someone if they fell.




It also didn't turn out to be as rigid as we first expected... :)
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Posted by FXGuy on Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:49 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Larry_Dunn

I have a 1/1 scale Saturn Five in my back yard.

Here come those men in the white suits again! Laugh [(-D]


Actually I have a one-for-one sitting in my back yard...

It's in a special garage called the Saturn V visitor's complex and is located just down teh street from it's manufacturing plant called the Vehicle Assembly Building...Big Smile [:D]

Living in Florida an hour away from launch pads 39A and 39B have some rewards!

Now if we could just do something about the frackin' hurricanes...
Industrial Special Effects
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:00 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mhvink

Chris, where on the Estes site did you find the downloadable decals. I scoured the website with no luck.

Mike


Do you need a scan of them? I have one of the OOP kits that I've recently started working on. I can scan the decal sheet for you if you want (I understand that up until recently some folks preferred those decals to the stock markings of the Revell AG kit. Scale's a bit off, I hear, but it supposedly "works"...).

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