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Topic: Skylab orbital workshop scale models
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BrianB
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From: Kamloops BC Canada
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 04-22-2002 02:52 AM
   
Does anyone know if there are (were) any scale models of Skylab? |
CPIA
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posted 04-22-2002 07:53 AM
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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From: Orting, WA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 04-22-2002 02:31 PM
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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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 04-22-2002 02:55 PM
RealSpace Models is planning to release a 1/144 Skylab kit this year, possibly soon. |
Trevor Sproston
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posted 04-29-2002 05:51 PM
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. |
Trevor Sproston
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posted 05-04-2002 10:26 AM
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. |
Judy
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posted 05-28-2002 04:10 PM
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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From: ridgefield, ct
Registered: May 2002
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posted 05-30-2002 09:50 AM
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
Member Posts: 355
From: GENT, Belgium
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-03-2002 10:22 AM
The NASA individual astronaut portraits for the Skylab astronauts show them holding very nice models! |
divemaster
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From: ridgefield, ct
Registered: May 2002
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posted 06-03-2002 08:39 PM
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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From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 05-26-2019 03:56 PM
Is there an estimate of how many 1/48 Skylab models were produced by the MSFC model shop?  |
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