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Wernher von Braun with inspection team arrived yesterday... Cheers / André- 19 replies
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This is the Pegasus Hobbies 1/350 Moon Lander as conceived by Wernher von Braun in the early '50s. It's a companion of sorts to my adaptation of Lindberg's old Moon Ship kit, to bring it closer to Von Braun's "round the moon" design from the same period. You can see that kit here: The lander was a monstrous object, 49 metres high, weighing 4000 tonnes, with a crew capacity of 25. The spherical crew compartment was at the top of the structure, so the crew needed a crane to lower them to the surface. Astronautix has the full specifications here: http://www.astronautix.com/v/vonbraunlunarlander.html The box art shows the kit configuration, which is unrealistic in terms of the original mission design. The large spherical external tanks were used for departure from earth orbit and then discarded. During trans-lunar injection the landing gear was designed to be stowed out of the blast from the 30 rocket engines - folded upwards in the case of the four outer legs, or telescoped in the case of the centre leg. The "real" landing configuration was portrayed in Bonestell's cover art for Collier's in 1952. I elected to portray the spacecraft shortly after landing, so needed to remove the kit's external tanks and apply a bit of scratch building to tidy up the "stumps" of the support structure. I also used some of ParaGrafix's photoetch details, a few of Tamiya's 1/350 crew figures modified to look like astronauts, and some decals saved from various old projects. I deviated from the kit's painting instructions, which render the fuel and oxidizer tanks in various shades of blue, red and yellow - this scheme seems to have been copied from Bonestell's paintings for Collier's, which in turn seems to originate from a set of colour-coded diagrams in the same article. So I opted from some plain white tanks instead. Quite a complicated kit to assemble, as you can see, but the parts fit together well. The kit's outer engines can be vectored in one plane, as in the original spacecraft design: I see I haven't quite got the crane cable for the crew lift to hang straight yet. Sigh. -
Sharkit (http://www.sharkit.com/sharkit/sharkithome/sharkithome.htm) has released a 1/72nd Von Braun EMW A6 limited edition resin kit - ref. Source: http://www.sharkit.com/sharkit/A6/A6.htm V.P.
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Hi,Big Boys and their Toys? "Right Mike,so how long have you been building this Launch Tower" one of N.A.S.A,S models,wonder where it is now? cheers Don
