Jeddahbill Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Greetings! Early NASA space program in 1/200 scale with a great many modifications to the kit, especially the spacecraft. Aftermarket decals, plywood base, and steel rod supports along with a general rework of the printed card display items that came with the kit. Many thanks for having al look, questions and comments are most welcome. Bill 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 I knew the Saturn 5 was big, but that realy puts it in to perspective. Lovely build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Great work Bill. The display base and tower really set it off. Always had a soft spot for the Saturn 1B. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Great looking Display for historical purposes ... love the gantry and the size comparison ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 wow - what a great collection - this really trues up the size and magnitude of a mighty Saturn V when compared to its older siblings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Magnificent display! I've 'flirted' with picking up this kit a hundred or so times...but this may finally push me over the edge! Like I need yet another project.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Really cool. How did you do the escape system on the Mercury rockets? Sprue or brass wire or what? I have the same kit and my two Mercury rockets have stalled while I try to decide how to deal with that bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddahbill Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 Many thanks for all the comments and questions. The Mercury spacecraft escape towers came from an old 1/350 photo etch warship set. Details can be seen in these WIP photos . . . . Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spruecutter96 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 A great collection of legacy space-craft and a real tribute to your building / painting skills, my friend. I will resort to using a rusty, old cliche here, but "they don't build 'em like that any more!" Thanks for sharing. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 " VERY NICE " well done on a beutifull piece of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 1/27/2018 at 6:05 AM, Jeddahbill said: Many thanks for all the comments and questions. The Mercury spacecraft escape towers came from an old 1/350 photo etch warship set. Details can be seen in these WIP photos . . . . Cool, thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RET Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Beautiful work - particularly like the work you did on the Apollo BPCs and the RCS pods. Those are really small details! Inspiring - Bravo! Ret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamiltonian Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Oooh. Lovely paint job. Black and white checker is a nightmare, and yours are very crisp. I think your Saturn V needs to be rotated 180 degrees, so that the vertical motion target (the vertical black dashed line) on the second stage faces the tower. It's at Position II (between the A and B markers on the first stage) and that's the side that had all the tower connections. Did the Saturn V launch tower come with the kit? Who did your aftermarket decals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddahbill Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Many thanks everyone for the kind words! All of the rockets are mounted on metal rods and can be removed or rotated, so the Saturn V can easily be positioned to the proper launch configuration - Thanks for the tip! The launch tower came with the kit, but I modified it a bit for the display shown in the images. The decals are from Tango Papa decals and are very good, but fragile. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamiltonian Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Tango Papa looks like an interesting outfit, thanks. Pity they don't have some images of the decal sheets on the website (or maybe I missed them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddahbill Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 Thanks for having a look and the comments! An image of the Tango Papa decal sheet can be seen here: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/tango-papa-complete-decals-amt-200-407435429 This is a very comprehensive set with duplicates. Some of the larger decals are challenging and can be cut into smaller segments to add in placement. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselweasel Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Fantastic display bill, who's kit is it, another of my ' I want to build this' projects. Great build ATB jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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