1/200 AMT Man in Space

[Jeddahbill]

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

 

 

[John_W]

I knew the Saturn 5 was big, but that realy puts it in to perspective.

Lovely build.

[Karl]

Great work Bill. The display base and tower really set it off.

 

Always had a soft spot for the Saturn 1B.

 

Karl

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Great looking Display for historical purposes  ... love the gantry and the size comparison ! 

[Gimme Shelter]

wow - what a great collection - this really trues up the size and magnitude of a mighty Saturn V when compared to its older siblings

[thorfinn]

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....

[bianfuxia]

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.

[Jeddahbill]

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

[spruecutter96]

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.  

[Homer]

" VERY NICE " well done on a beutifull piece of work. 

[bianfuxia]

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!

[RET]

Beautiful work - particularly like the work you did on the Apollo BPCs and the RCS pods.  Those are really small details!

 

Inspiring - Bravo!

 

Ret

[Hamiltonian]

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?

 

[Jeddahbill]

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

[Hamiltonian]

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).

[Jeddahbill]

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

 

 

 

 

[dieselweasel]

Fantastic display bill, who's kit is it, another of my ' I want to build this' projects.

Great build

ATB jim