1/48 Saturn V

When I was a kid, I built a 1:144 scale model kit. Stood a hair over three feet tall on its stand. Cool model. The rocket's nice, too.

baltimoretrainworks posted:

Came across this on FB, gonna need a bigger train room to model Kennedy!

http://www.spacemodel.com/blan...55-f7e8-3814d4cc4715

 

Jerry

Going to need a rich uncle also.  The baby comes in at just $7995.00. 

Maybe you could just model the capsules?

VistaDomeScott posted:

Maybe you could just model the capsules?

Already available from Dragon Models. Flatcar not included. 

 

Going to need a rich uncle also.  The baby comes in at just $7995.00. 

She does appear to be costly,

The plastic model company Revell has a 1/96 scale Saturn V kit and it's 5 foot plus tall......even it would overwhelm anything in O scale!!! 

6 foot version must have been cheaper, shows as sold out!

I had the privilege of visiting 'Spaceport USA' in Florida where they have the so called rocket garden including a mock up Saturn 1B (Saturn V's little brother) on it's side. The smaller rocket is huge and would probably require several flatcars to transport all of the stages.

My first reaction was "I want that!"

Then I saw the price . . .

Maybe the human IS included at that price?

Saturn V business end at 1:1 scale . . .

I just received the estes model rocket to fly but its not as tall.

shurlock1 posted:

I just received the estes model rocket to fly but its not as tall.

I built one back in the day, wish I had this one...

Jerry

Good flippin' grief! People are amazing! Imagine building that, a Saturn V at 1:10 that actually flies! Amazing video!

Holy crap Batman !   That was amazing !

shurlock1 posted:

I just received the estes model rocket to fly but its not as tall.

When I was into rockets.....way back......I wanted that Estes Saturn V kit....but it's was $20 when the average kit was about $2......still would like to buy one. 

baltimoretrainworks posted:

shurlock1 posted:

I just received the estes model rocket to fly but its not as tall.

I built one back in the day, wish I had this one...

 

Jerry

Now that's an expensive hobby.

I am at a loss of words re: the 1:10 "model"!

A pal of mine bought the Dragon 1/72 Saturn V model. What a monster, even in that scale!

Many of you know I model the WW2 years, but I must admit I’d have loved to have crossed my interests to model Kennedy Space center’s railroad (or an alternate reality version of it) to include the pad 39 complex, so I could model either a Saturn V or a STS stack on the pad (or crawler going to it).

I’ve seen all three of the existing Saturn Vs and the one other surviving first stage of one as well as the Skylab trainers at Huntsville and in DC.

Of the full rocket setups, I think Kennedy has the best restoration, Huntsville has the most complete one, and Houston… well, it could use a lot of work, still compared to the other two.

Here’s the one at KSC, taken in 2014. I don’t think I have any of the Houston one on Photobucket:

Huntsville has a roughly 90% scale model of one sitting vertically right next to their real one lying horizontally at the Davidson building, seen in several times when going through the adult Space Camp programs there:

Huntsville also has a next 1:10 scale model with a cutaway showing the interior, which is displayed right under their test article Saturn V. I bet a lot of people are marveling at the 1:1 version and walk right past this amazing model without even noticing it!

Kinda puts the Lionel 175 Rocket Launcher Pad to it's own place, does it not?  And the Saturn V rocket model is something else, also!  Yes, the 1:1 models pictured are nice, indeed.

Jesse

Kinda off on a tangent (but I think many of these posts are already -  ), but here is a neat item that Corgi made several years ago and probably served as my introduction to Corgi:

Jim

jd-train posted:

Kinda off on a tangent (but I think many of these posts are already

Jim

I've noticed that many of us have cross-linked interests in anything mechanical and in particular powerful machines, rockets, locomotives, aircraft, cars... must be something in our DNA or just the time we grew up in, many of us got to see these things in their glory days and/or their developement. I get the same thrill watching vidoes of the Big Boy charging down the tracks as I get watching a Saturn launch.

Jerry

I was 9 years old when our astronauts first walked on the moon, and remember the excitement of it all. 

Looking back and seeing how very basic computing was at the time, I can't decide if the Apollo astronauts were some of the bravest (or craziest) men on earth!

Nowadays its going to the space station and rovers, not quite the same.

Jim

jd-train posted:

Looking back and seeing how very basic computing was at the time, I can't decide if the Apollo astronauts were some of the bravest (or craziest) men on earth!

Jim

According to my wife, space travel must have been pretty safe back then because of all the intelligent and educated women (known as the 'computers') doing the calculations.

Jim R. posted:

VistaDomeScott posted:

Maybe you could just model the capsules?

Already available from Dragon Models. Flatcar not included. 

Thats really cool.

(standing ovation for 1:10 Saturn V)

Needs more gi-raffes, though. 

Mitch

The Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy center just south of Dulles Airport has a 1/48 scale model of the Saturn V.  These pictures were taken the day they swapped the Discovery for the Enterprise.  These are old cellphone pictures.....

True that people into stuff like trains are usually into other stuff. Many train fans are also into airplanes and military history, I've noticed.

I saw two astronauts at JSC reading over a issue of "Trains" a few years ago. They begged me to never mention their names for fear of teasing by the other astronauts...

jd-train posted:

Looking back and seeing how very basic computing was at the time, I can't decide if the Apollo astronauts were some of the bravest (or craziest) men on earth!

Jim

 

Not to mention the machine they were riding in !

And just to keep it somewhat train related...

Jerry

 A former colleague worked for Grumman Aero Space in the 60's and early 70's. He worked on the LEM program and the stories are unbelievable. We all remember the gold foil on the LEM right? He said you could put a hole in it by breathing hard on it. Absolutely amazing that we sent men to the moon and back in that can.

I'm actually sitting here watching Apollo 13.  I have lost track long ago of how many times I have watched it, but I still enjoy it. I guess it just goes with growing up in South Florida and being in Cocoa Beach so many times.

Larry

Larry, you watch it so many times, cause every time it brings you back to your younger days!

I started one in cardstock a few years back.

Compare this 1:48 LEM with the Atlas Trainman caboose.  The problem with these kinds of models isn't building them, it's storing them.  I destroyed the first stage (but I kept the thrust structure) because that long hollow tube was taking all kinds of damage moving it around all the time.  Besides, even flat on the floor with no stand a 1:48 scale Saturn V is over 8 feet tall.  Add a simplified pad and it's through the ceiling. 

1:48 scale Vostok/R-7 on a flatcar.

F-1 engine on K-Line car.

I know this picture isn't great, but a lot of these have been destroyed since it was taken.  The 4 tallest boosters in the corner are, left to right, 1:96 N-1, 1:96 Saturn V Apollo 11, Estes 1:100 Saturn V Apollo 11 and Constellation/Orion (behind the big white Vulkan).  The 1:96 Saturn V is about 4 feet tall and as you can see the Estes is shorter.

In 2001 there was a contest between 2 teams building 1:16 scale flying models of the N-1 and the Saturn V.  Only the N-1 team succeeded.  http://www.moonrace2001.org/n1_rocket.shtml

I'm in the process of building a 1/48th scale flying Saturn V. If anyone is interested, I can show you this build thread.

Kinda Big...

Three of the four resin fin shrouds were warped.

A paper pattern was supplied by the manufacturer which I used to scratch build my own shrouds.

@jd-train posted:

Looking back and seeing how very basic computing was at the time, I can't decide if the Apollo astronauts were some of the bravest (or craziest) men on earth!

Yes, basic computing - slide rulers mostly operated by women.  NH Joe

@wild mary posted:

Going to need a rich uncle also.  The baby comes in at just $7995.00.

They are ALL expensive!  $7995.00 , is that to buy or rent?  Also how much is that rocket next to her??

@Sigwally posted:

They are ALL expensive!  $7995.00 , is that to buy or rent?  Also how much is that rocket next to her??

That's to own.

...and then there's a Russian Railways Alco RSD1 "clone" delivering one of their babies to the lauch site as seen on Space Night.

The Cold War's Race to Space at it's very best!

Please Pray for Peace.  Our children and their children's children deserve nothing less.