Revell 1/144 Apollo Saturn V Rocket with Paper LUT & Crawler

WOW!  That looks amazing.  I am in the process of building my own tower and find it to be very tedious.  I just hope mine turns out half as good as yours.  PS  I never thought of the idea of using glue sticks.  That may make my life easier!  Thanks

Nice work, Rob.  When I saw the first picture of the Saturn V on that yellow stand, I was immediately taken back to the one I built in 1969(!).  Being the one of the only two Air Force Brats in the school (the other was my younger sister), I was asked to bring it to school and give a little presentation about the mighty Saturn V to several classes.  It's amazing how easy it was then, and how much I HATE giving presentations today.

Your crawler and gantry assembly look really detailed, until the light reflects off the surface, and you can see that it really is printed paper.  Still, a really nice presentation.  Thanks for sharing.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

I realize this thread is 3 + years old! but I am building this same Revell kit and have the same LUT and Crawler paper kits...this thread is just what I needed to see!! Thanks! Did you ever get around to building the crawler?

Fantastic build....just wonderful.  I remember watching her lift off as well....what exciting times.

Rob

Hehehe...now its over five years and I just got the 1/144 scale Saturn V from Revel and the LUT too.  I have two grand sons who are going to build it with me and learn all about the Apollo program and man's landing on the moon.

Thanks, Rob, for this thread.  It will make things a lot easier on the tower!  And I will order the other decals now before I ever start.

And so it goes on........11th June and I've just started on my own Revell 1/144 Saturn V (the 2014 release with new, improved transfers) and the paper LUT is winging it's way to my home here in the UK even as I type.

I do have one question though - The Revel painting instructions suggest green for most internal parts of the 'V' (tanks, some internal surfaces, etc) but all the photos I have been able to find on-line suggest the real things had yellow, or a mustard sort of color in these areas.  Can anyone throw any definitive light on this please? I would like to get it right if I can.

I spent a lot of time researching the internet before I painted various components.  I'll end up doing it again when I build the 1/72 Saturn V.

That's more or less what I'm doing, Rob. Seems to me photographs of the prototype have to be more reliable than a kit manufacturer's instructions.

Well, Rob and all.... Today I finally made a start on my own LUT and if it ends up looking half as good as yours, I will be more than happy.  After more than 40 years of modelling, this thing is an entirely new learning curve!

To make matters even more complicated, the base of the LUT is wider than the space which I have available to display it on my rocket display cabinet, so in my case it has to be narrowed down to a maximum width of 9" (it is currently just over 11"). This is all very well but it means I have to cheat slightly and also reduce the amount by which the legs of the tower itself 'splay-out' at the bottom....only by 3/8ths of an inch or so overall and visually it will still look absolutely fine when done, albeit slightly unprototypical. However, reducing the 'splay' has the inevitable knock-on effect of raising everything else up, so that is also going to have to be compensated for, meaning some fairly extensive modifications to all of the bracing parts on the first three levels in order to bring everything else back to where it needs to be. Also some tricky cutting on the base ends in order to keep the printed-on pipework in the right place.

The base is now done and (to my surprise) looking OK.  

Don Mason - Nottingham, UK.

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