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posted 04-13-2009 06:25 PM               

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Seconded! Totally awesome!

That makes me cry. I always tried to get mine like that but never succeeded!

If you need a museum to put it into, I know of one, the Columbia Memorial Space Center and/or the Aerospace Legacy Foundation, here on the holy ground, where Apollo and the shuttles were built, in Downey!

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posted 04-15-2009 12:26 PM               

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OUTSTANDING! This kind of project separates those who can from those (like me) who wish they could.

My compliments.

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posted 04-15-2009 12:36 PM            

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Nice! and I'll say it again for effect: VERY NICE!!!

From the pictures I can't see down into the individual stages. Did you go through the trouble of making the engines and top bulkheads for each one?

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posted 04-15-2009 01:24 PM               

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Steve, what can I say?

That is the best model I have seen you do so far... and I thought the others were simply unbeatable! What did Neil Armstrong say about it?

Keep up the brilliant work!

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posted 04-15-2009 03:35 PM               

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Thanks to all who have viewed, and, offered the kind words.

I forgot to mention, this wears Tomas's detail set, and SMS decals. The tank bulkheads are the kits, I didn't have Glenn's batted F-1's at the time, I produced my own batting but I have his now.

Prior to delivery I was instructed by the owner to pack it well, because both Neil and Buzz would both see it, I do not know of their reactions, I just hope they were sitting down, I would not have wanted them to fall from laughing to hard!

This was the first build a shakedown, working on a 48th scale version, F-1's are in the blueprint stage.

One last thought, These models I have posted photos of are no longer in my possession, but being able to share their images with those who appreciate them, makes those long nights, bearable.

Check the magazine Great Scale Modeling 08, by Fine Scale Modeler, page 60, a little article on my abilities. I've built for Tamiya, numerous Galleries in Manhattan, Philly, etc. Won numerous awards at the national IPMS level right down to the local levels, including various shows highlighting figure painting.

Space modeling is new to me, and to say it is exciting, is a downplay of words, I finally have the talent and resources to build these the way they should be built, to preserve the memory of the men and women who all made these vehicles what they stand for today.

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posted 04-15-2009 09:25 PM               

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Beautiful work there Steve. So this model in a sense was a scratchbuilt Saturn V using some elements from a 1/144 kit (or is it 1/96? I can't quite tell), but the vast majority being scratchbuilt right? Truely a work of art if I've ever seen one. The CSM alone is incredible just from the few images I see of it.

I know what you mean about making the nights bearable. I might not be at your level at being able to scratchbuild all that much (although in the Saturn V's case, scratchbuilding might be easier in some ways then accurizing a kit), but I can do a mean space model myself. I still sometimes have to glance at images of my 1/72 STS-117 shuttle stack at the Strategic Air and Space museum in Ashland, NE to help get over the fact it isn't in my possession currently. That and frequent "inspection" visits anyway.

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posted 04-16-2009 05:48 AM               

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Jay, the tanks are PVC sewer pipe, the stringers are evergreen sheets over the existing interstages to recreate the correct patterns. The CSM was completely scratchbuilt using platiccard, I didn't have the money to buy the detail set, and, I used my Mattell vacuform for the BPC. It's 1/96 and there are a couple of areas, that I would have liked to have done differently, as I said she was my first.

Right now, I'm constructing a small diorama, in 1/144, SA-210 on the "milk stool".

Could we see some photos of your work? It's always nice to find someone that shares the same affliction.

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posted 04-16-2009 10:20 AM               

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Thank you, they are the kits, covered with bare metal foil. I now have a correctly batted set from RealSpace models, and North American engineering.

I agree, the Custom replicas kit is beautiful, and I patiently await their re-release.

By the way, your build looks pretty impressive, keep up the great work.

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