1/48 scale Saturn 5

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Hi there!
I started to built a 1/48 scale Saturn 5! Is there anybody out there, who already finished one and can give me some hints? My main problems are F1-engine and the stringers! Thanks!
Chris

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try checking out http://www.ricksternbach.com/SatV/Saturn_V_Clinic.html should help ya out

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Where do you get a 1/48 scale Saturn V ? Are you scratch building ?

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I started with the finished CSM Model from “Space Voyagers” in 1/48, then I found a downloadable 1/48 scale Saturn V paper model. So the idea was born!! But I was afraid that it wouldn´t be stable enough, so I bought a 20cm diameter tube
( http://www.einecke-online.com/pages/p-kgrohre.asp )
for SI-C and SII, and a friend of mine made a wooden S-IVB with cone interstage and LM-shroud. I also found downloadable Saturn V decals from Estes, which I´ll plot out on adhesive foil. Now I´m working on details, such as stringers, F1, vents, ullage rockets, etc…
Due to I´m a student, all should be low budget, but not looking too much “self-made”!
Can anyone help me with details?
Thanks

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Well, my Clinic pages are a bit out of date, or rather, stale, and should be updated sometime in the next month or so. I can’t claim to have a lot of experience yet with 1/48 on the Saturn V, as I’m testing a few things in 1/96, but I do have future plans to build a 1/48 beast.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

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here is a link for a 1/48 http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/saturnvst_1.htm
there is also another one out there…dont remember what the link is though. i saw it a while back…he even built a LUT for it.

try googling it you might find it.

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Dave Gianakos built a 1/34 scale Saturn V and LUT originally as a flying model, but today the beast is on display at NASM.

Rick

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Hi,

my humble efforts on the 1/48 Saturn V can be seen at http://spacemodels.homepage.dk

The site has pictures of the progress to give an impression of how the thing is built.

Martin

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have you seen this one:

http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/0401sf/

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Chris, where on the Estes site did you find the downloadable decals. I scoured the website with no luck.

Mike

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You may be able to find a down loadable copy of the decals at this link:

http://www.dars.org/jimz/k-36.htm

I don’t know how it would turn out if you printed it in color on decal sheet but I did blow up one of his prints to put on a model rocket and it worked fairly well.

Good luck!

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I have a 1/1 scale Saturn Five in my back yard.

Here come those men in the white suits again! [(-D]

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I thought you guys might be interested in seeing the 1/4 scale Saturn V we built as a class prank in January. Unfortunately, the cops wouldn’t let us mount the engines as they could have killed someone if they fell.


It also didn’t turn out to be as rigid as we first expected… :slight_smile:

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Actually I have a one-for-one sitting in my back yard…

It’s in a special garage called the Saturn V visitor’s complex and is located just down teh street from it’s manufacturing plant called the Vehicle Assembly Building…[:D]

Living in Florida an hour away from launch pads 39A and 39B have some rewards!

Now if we could just do something about the frackin’ hurricanes…

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Do you need a scan of them? I have one of the OOP kits that I’ve recently started working on. I can scan the decal sheet for you if you want (I understand that up until recently some folks preferred those decals to the stock markings of the Revell AG kit. Scale’s a bit off, I hear, but it supposedly “works”…).

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