Sky Lab

Modeling Subjects Space
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I was wondering if there was a Sky Lab model kit for sale any where? If anybody could let me know that would be fantastic.

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In resin at 1/100th scale

http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/vista_reps/100skylab.html

Don’t ever remember seeing an injection kit of one. Suppose if you are feeling brave, you could use a stage of either the Revell 1/96th or Airfix 1/144th Scale Saturn V’s as a starting point & scratch build the rest .

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Any place in the US?

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It would be a long shot if you could find a copy of the Vista kit. This company went on an extended holiday with a lot of people’s money and never delivered many kits. A few copies of the kit managed to get delivered but the kit is rather rare.

Another Skylab kit that was released came from Marcos Miniatures. I had a copy, but sold it as I felt the quality was not very good. Several companies have mentioned that they plan on releasing a good quality Skylab in the future, but this is still “vaporware”.

Mike

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Thanks alot Mike. Hopefully they release it soon, beacuse I wanted to build it for my grandpa since he was a product manager.

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Cool! That’s a fantastic reason to build a Skylab! The company most likely to realise a SkyLab kit is Real Space Models. Here’s a link to their page where they mention this in their future release schedule.

http://www.realspacemodels.com/html/future_releases.HTML

Keep in mind, though, that this has been on their list for several years! However, the owner of Real Space Models keeps getting reminded by quite a few of us that this is an important kit to release. [:D]

Have fun and good luck with your project!

Mike

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I seem to recall that FineScale Modeler featured an article about how to build a Skylab from the Revell Saturn V kit’s third stage. This probably came out about 10 years or so ago. Check the index on the website to see which issue the article appeared in.

Martin

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I found it in November 2000 issue and It woun’t show it on the internet.

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The Marco Minature Skylab was one of the hardest kits I ever built. All the supports had to be replaced with brass rod.

Both Realspace and New Ware have looked into creating Skylabs. the problem is 1 G vs. O G. the real one had intricate supports that were fine fine scale in weightlessness. the problem is getting a thin support taht has enough strengnth to support the other parts of Skylab. Tom at New Ware is still trying.