Tomas Bark

Time for an update..... been busy with the fairings (underside) First i have been drawing it in autocad, and then glueing the parts together , made of 1mm evergreen rod A little dryfitting And then glueing the part into place Also i painted all the bolts on the heat shield.... a lot of work And the rest of the reinforcement rods in place Also some rivet detailing on the fins I don’t want to overdo it, because the rivets would be to close to eachother That kind of finishes the S-IC thrust structure with all the decals in place Here a 360 view on youtube

So moving up to the intertank section..... of course the Access Door has to be there... , so i decided to scratchbuild one myself.... here the first items made from .4 mm evergreen sheets.... i based the dimensions on the stringers. i tried to recreate the rivets with a point from a device to draw circles.... (can’t remember the english word.... 🤭) The door and umbilical panel installed on the intertank section.. Painted and decals added Detail And i decided to order David Weeks 1/48 drawing set for the Saturn V..... guess i can’t do without them 😓 Tom

After that i of course had to make the umbilical panels....... And the other side (painted already) Also started working on the system tunnels.... obviously they are way too long So i cut out 2,5 cm And put on some evergreen strips for more detailing Put on the USA decals from Rick Sternbach on the RP-1 tank, and more strips on the system tunnel, also started to work on the fins. Tom

Absolutely amazing...... I’ll say it again, my build can only be in the shadow of yours..... Tell me : You’re going to detail the system tunnels as well aren’t you ?? You owe it to yourself !!! I found out the sytem tunnels are to big indeed after i installed them, so nothing i can do anymore.... i did install the small strips on the sytem tunnels as can be seen on a lot of images... (still wondering if they are silver(ish), somebody told me they are metal strips.......) Tom

I see what you mean Jörgen !! Althought there are maybe a few aftermarket parts i will need, because they are to hard to make them for yourself.... We’ll see where this ends.... anyway, here some things i already did.... i am starting my build from the bottom up, so here the thrust structure First i installed some of the LVM batted engines Also you can see i started painting... but that’s the way i work.. Some people build and then paint, i most of the time build and paint at the same time.... of course the problem is that i later decide to do some detailing, and i have to paint all over again 😉 I used Tamiya Nato black for the black parts because it’s a nicer shade of black (imho) I then decided that i wanted the “hold down posts” so i started with drawing them in autocad... Then somebody told me they were to big... so back to the drawing board... the red stringers have to be removed as well Luckily a fellow member send me this picture so i had some more accurate dimensions I made one from evergreen strip (before i got the correct dimensions) and later made the new (smaller one) Ofcourse they have to be half black, half white and it will be very difficult to paint them correctly after installing them, so i painted them while constructing First construct half of it, then paint it black, then construct the other half...... Then the “dirty part” , drilling the holes where they should go Until you get the exact hole where they fit As you see they fit... don’t worry if the holes are a little to wide, because a small strip is added to the sides Here the strips that will be put on And of course... this process has to be repeated 4 times for all sides...... Tom

Indeed, this “thing” should be on the shelf of doom, 😂 ok, first lets start with some old pics, when i wanted to use the Dragon engines...... i should give you an idea how to detail them more “if” you want to use these i started to work on the “Thrust structure” and put a 1/72 Kübelwagen (from my V2 project” next to the F1 engine to an idea of it’s size I wanted to detail the engines a little more so i put on some piping detail Eventually i didn’t use the Dragon engines but decided to get the LVM batted engines, which will be shown in the next post tom

Hello Everyone ! Relatively new to this forum, and on the advice of Jörgen (user Bengalensis) i decided to start my own thread on the build of the Saturn V from Dragon. As everybody knows by now, the dragon kit is far from accurate, and it will take a lot of time to build it. There are aftermarker parts for it, but then it will take a lot of money to build it. So i decided to build it out of the box, with a lot of scratch build parts. Of course it will be a compromise, because there are some parts that i cannot build, and since i am on a low(ish) budget, i am not going to buy parts from shapeways or resin parts, but only use the dragon parts (i hope that i can live up to my promise, but we’ll see ! (Correction, i did use the LVM batted F1 engines, because the dragon engines were too small, and the launch vehicle only used the batted engines) i also bought the Culttvman decals, because they are much much better then the dragon ones, and also there are a lot of extra decals in this set... Also I started this kit back in 2015, and i have now nearly completed the first stage (S-IC) but i will post some pics from the past as well, to see the progress..... Anyway, let’s get started !! (Hmmmmm i’m not the first one using that phrase 😜) Tom

Absolutely beautifull...... I must say, i can only hope to get half of the detail on mine..... already bought 2 packs of evergreen .75 x .75, but it looks like i’m gonna need a few more packs !!! The images are a great help to others also making the Saturn V I will start my own thread here as well, but it will allways stand in the shadow of yours ! the enormous ammount of work done by you is very much apreciated....... cheers Tom

Hi Jörgen I scratched them from evergreen strips.... just to give an idea..... Tom

Great work Jörgen !! it takes ages, i know.... but hang in there, the end product will be stunning !! i’m working on the fwd skirt now....adding all the stringers...., making the access door and umbilical panel, the LOX vents , ODOP antennas etc etc..... i first want to finnish the S-IC before i start working on the rest..... awaiting your updates....😉 cheers tom