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Having a go at 1/144 saturn v inter-20 [more resin from martin,s models]


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Hi,all.. first off,let me put you straight before someone spouts it,iv'e no connection to this maker of fine models,he seems to have kits of the more unusual,side of the space race,ie the perceived way the space race could have gone,me personally cant get over the vision of a couple of saturn c8,s circling the earth,what a photograph that would of been.It seems these days its the cottage modeller,s that are the only ones that can put out new output,though i do wish it was not the case,as i find plastic a lot easier to model,though not as much of a challenge as resin,but as a lot of martins kits are conversions,of standard plastic kits,i get the best of both worlds,as i can use the bits,of one kit for other ones,and these days of austerity,a good thing?...ENOUGH,of that,now ive started this,because i had a built airfix saturn 5 lying around,which id bought for spares a while back,

heres a before pic,it looks rougher in the flesh,glue,everywhere,seams very gappy,and stages assembled upside down,

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first off working out what to remove from the kit,and what i can do to clean it up ?

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Removing the airfix interstage tank tops and 2nd stage engines and mountings

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next replace the 5 engines with 4,which means disrgarding the kit base completly and fitting the new resin engines and heat shield base.

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cheers Don

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hi,just a few more photos of me chopping and hacking.

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engine bulkhead painted,and starting to affix engines

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comparison. airfix on left,martins resin saturn vs-11 liquid hydrogen tank dome

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cutting out the airfix saturn 1b s-1vb thrust structure

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sorting engines

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cheers Don

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Hi,just a few more,starting to assemble all painted modules,

just showing the bits of detail,not present on the airfix..

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masking the internal detail,whilst spraying the outside,i find these furniture pads which are self adhesive,and from the pound shop,dont ask how much they are,you get a lot,all different diameters,quite useful...

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still masking..

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right gotta go and pick kids up have a nice day cheers Don

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Getting towards finishing,sorry if its a big picture heavy,but what the heck! enjoy.....

right finishing painting on the launch body

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test fitting to see if it goes together ok,and get some idea of finished size

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Don

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Hi just nearing finish,painting the little bits,and decaling..

first off comparison with airfix,s skylab kit.

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oops missed the ends of the engine shrouds

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ok decals,going with the saturn pattern,

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just painting pipe tunnels..

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right thats it,next pics will be in the finished section if your intrested cheers for looking Don

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