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Liembo
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posted 12-11-2019 05:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I haven't seen another example of this in my own searching, so I am wondering if anyone could identify the maker of this Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) model. There is no maker's mark on the base. It was either modeled without the shrouds over the gas storage tanks or they are missing.

Rick Mulheirn
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posted 12-11-2019 05:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rick Mulheirn   Click Here to Email Rick Mulheirn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't know for sure who made this model but my guess would be either Rockwell or NASA in-house model shop. It looks suspiciously like the model in Deke Slayton's WSS portrait photo.

Liembo
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posted 12-11-2019 06:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's definitely the same model in the photo, I can see on mine where the (antenna?) on the Soyuz solar arrays have detached.

Another reference on Worthpoint for an old ebay listing has it coming from the MSFC Graphics and Models branch.

Retro Rocket
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posted 12-12-2019 03:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Retro Rocket   Click Here to Email Retro Rocket     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i have the same but no maker.

Liembo
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posted 12-12-2019 04:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Would be be possible to get photos of the antennas of the Soyuz on the tips of the solar arrays?

Retro Rocket
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posted 12-13-2019 03:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Retro Rocket   Click Here to Email Retro Rocket     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Mine's missing. It's real tough finding pics of this model.

Philip
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posted 12-14-2019 05:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have several photos of the model (e.g. in the Russian ASTP crew civil clothes portrait). Email for scans.

Joel Katzowitz
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posted 12-14-2019 07:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Joel Katzowitz   Click Here to Email Joel Katzowitz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I know this is "slightly" off topic but, being a spacegeek and furniture builder, I love the butterfly splines in your oak table top. I love the model as well, ASTP is one of my favorite missions.

Retro Rocket
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posted 12-14-2019 02:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Retro Rocket   Click Here to Email Retro Rocket     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Philip, could i get those images? Thanks, email is retrorocket@aol.com.

Retro Rocket
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posted 12-14-2019 06:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Retro Rocket   Click Here to Email Retro Rocket     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i bought the model in this Worthpoint listing, so I'm making the Soyuz and adapter.

Liembo
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posted 12-31-2019 12:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Philip I would appreciate the photos as well, thank you.

Retro Rocket if you need photos of the Soyuz and adapter let me know.

Philip
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posted 12-31-2019 11:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Check the MoonwatchUniverse Tumblr blog photos for January 2018.

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