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BrianB
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posted 04-22-2002 02:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BrianB   Click Here to Email BrianB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anyone know if there are (were) any scale models of Skylab?

CPIA
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posted 04-22-2002 07:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for CPIA   Click Here to Email CPIA     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Check out Nick Proach's website. Nick builds models of various spacecraft.

The Skylab model is in his gallery section.

disglobes
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posted 04-22-2002 02:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for disglobes   Click Here to Email disglobes     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There was one Skylab model put out that I know of in 1/144th scale but is very rare. I had heard there were only 500 made. I see them a couple times a year on eBay and usually sell between $150-$200. I can't remember the name of the manufacturer.

sts205cdr
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posted 04-22-2002 02:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sts205cdr   Click Here to Email sts205cdr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
RealSpace Models is planning to release a 1/144 Skylab kit this year, possibly soon.

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posted 04-29-2002 05:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Trevor Sproston   Click Here to Email Trevor Sproston     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have an unbuilt Marco's miniatures resin 1/144 model of Skylab which has lain about my shed for years. As far as I know, this is the only model ever made.

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posted 05-04-2002 10:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Trevor Sproston   Click Here to Email Trevor Sproston     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've taken another look at my Skylab kit since this correspondence began. It's a piss-poor kit - very poor surface to the castings, the globe base is covered with finger prints where the modeler has moulded the [inaccurate] continents, and the parts don't actually go together properly.

All in all, you would only want to buy this for its historical value, not as a kit to build. If RealSpace are doing one, then go for that.

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posted 05-28-2002 04:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Judy   Click Here to Email Judy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have been searching the web for info on a Skylab model also.

I have a handmade model of what I think is an early version of Skylab. It is mounted on a plaque, and stands upright in a wire frame. It is 16.5", made of metal, wood and wire, hand sculpted and painted. The view is a cutaway of the interior but... it is not round like the diagram pics I found. It is more of a 3-D trapezoidal shape with a curved front (like a section of a cylinder). There are many colored and shaped instruments inside. There is even a little metal kitchen sink that I believe was placed in humor by his team.

The plaque is titled "G. E. Smith, Memories, Martin Denver, February 1967, The A. E. P. Team." There is a Martin Company sticker on the model.

I have been trying to find out who G. E. Smith is. He is obviously NOT the guitar player from SNL.

divemaster
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posted 05-30-2002 09:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for divemaster   Click Here to Email divemaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The only production models of the complete Skylab are from Vista Replicas in the UK [produced in 1996] and from Marco's Miniature's [now out of production]. RealSpace Model's is supposed to produce a 1/144 version by the end of this year. All are in 1/144 scale and all are in resin. New Ware, out of the Czech Republic, has it on their "to do" list.

You can also get the Skylab launch shroud conversion for the Saturn V in 1/96, 1/144 and 1/200 from RealSpace.

ALAIN
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posted 06-03-2002 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ALAIN     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The NASA individual astronaut portraits for the Skylab astronauts show them holding very nice models!

divemaster
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posted 06-03-2002 08:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for divemaster   Click Here to Email divemaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Those are all contractor models. You can pick them up at auction every so often. Be prepared to pay dearly for them.

Liembo
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posted 05-26-2019 03:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is there an estimate of how many 1/48 Skylab models were produced by the MSFC model shop?

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