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stsmithva
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posted 08-03-2025 09:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A couple of years ago I bought a previously owned Saturn V model at auction. It arrived in several pieces in a box of packing peanuts, with several bags holding smaller parts like engines, the command module, etc.

I thought I had carefully found all the parts, and gave the box to a neighbor who was moving. Only now as I get around to assembling it do I realize that a part is missing.

I am hoping that someone can identify the model, and offer suggestions for how I can get that missing piece.

There are no identifying words anywhere on it that would identify the manufacturer. As you can see by the photo, it is on the large size. I would be more than three feet tall assembled, so a scale greater than 1:100.

It is on a black round base. (I haven't assembled the engines yet.) The lunar module is visible through a transparent window, but there are no other such windows.

The missing piece is a ring that should go at the top of the part on the right. The bottom of the part on the left has some sort of locking mechanism that comes down.

Hopefully someone can identify the source of the model from all of this, and hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to replace that ring to finally put it all together.

Thanks for any help!

Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-03-2025 09:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Judging by the base and size, as well as the tank detail, it looks to be Dragon's 1:72 Saturn V but modified to use Dragon's 1:72 Apollo 10 Command Service Module, which has the transparent spacecraft lunar module adapter (SLA).

GACspaceguy
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posted 08-03-2025 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree with Robert and the real giveaways are the F-1 engine fairings and the round black base. I did exactly what Robert said was done here and used the Apollo 10 Dragon model that showed the LM.

stsmithva
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posted 08-03-2025 03:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you very much for ID’ing it. And good news: there isn’t really a part missing!

All this time I’ve thought there was, because the parts I have just refused to go together. But thanks to the ID, I went to the long cS thread about this model, examined the pictures carefully, tried a few more times, and CLICK!

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