Planebuilder62 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 50 years ago on July 20 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Please find some pictures of my Dragon 1/72 Saturn V model I built a few years ago and it won a Bronze medal at the 2015 ScaleModelWorld competition. The kit was largely made OOB but some small changes were made: All stringer ends cut back and chamfered off LSA top section added to improve the fit between the LSA and the Service Module Gold and brass foil fitted the the Lunar Module Contact probes added to 3 of the Lunar Module landing pads Retro rockets fitted to the top of Stage 3 Separation rockets exhausts opened out on Stage 2 Umbilical interface between Stage 1 and Interstage New Ware decals used A large number of sink marks were filled in at all stages. Painting was done by airbrush as my first attempt with a spray can resulted in lots of paint runs. Now, on to the pictures. Work in progress: Complete for the first time on the kitchen table On the competition table at Telford, nothing got broken on the flight over😅 BPC, Command Module and Service Module Lunar Module Stage 1 and 1/72 Airfix Concorde for scale comparison All together now 38 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve27752 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Now that is a big beastie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAF Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Beautiful work! That IS a big one! Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamiltonian Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Nice job on a hefty beast. I seriously toyed with the Dragon 1/72 myself, but didn't have house-room, really. So I settled for a major fix-up job on the Revell 1//96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark4700 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Fantastic. The command and Luna modules look sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Incredible work ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Stenzenko Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Good work on a difficult kit. Came out great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nocoolname Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 On 7/19/2019 at 12:37 PM, Planebuilder62 said: 50 years ago on July 20 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Please find some pictures of my Dragon 1/72 Saturn V model I built a few years ago and it won a Bronze medal at the 2015 ScaleModelWorld competition. The kit was largely made OOB but some small changes were made: All stringer ends cut back and chamfered off LSA top section added to improve the fit between the LSA and the Service Module Gold and brass foil fitted the the Lunar Module Contact probes added to 3 of the Lunar Module landing pads Retro rockets fitted to the top of Stage 3 Separation rockets exhausts opened out on Stage 2 Umbilical interface between Stage 1 and Interstage New Ware decals used A large number of sink marks were filled in at all stages. Painting was done by airbrush as my first attempt with a spray can resulted in lots of paint runs. Now, on to the pictures. Work in progress: Complete for the first time on the kitchen table On the competition table at Telford, nothing got broken on the flight over😅 BPC, Command Module and Service Module Lunar Module Stage 1 and 1/72 Airfix Concorde for scale comparison All together now Ok, so where do you live, behind that door or in the Saturn V? Presumably the Saturn V because its bigger than what's behind the door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 How Mighty it looks - the Mighty Saturn V is brilliant - its great to see this kit built up looking so nice - I sold mine off sadly now that I have seen yours built up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre B Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Great work! Seeing this makes me want to stick to 1/72 and build the Dragon kit instead of the Airfix 1/144 kit... Cheers / Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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