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Topic: What Saturn V model is this?
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stsmithva Member Posts: 2129 From: Fairfax, VA Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-03-2025 09:35 AM
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 Editor Posts: 55007 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-03-2025 09:52 AM
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 Member Posts: 3205 From: Guyton, GA Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-03-2025 01:36 PM
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 Member Posts: 2129 From: Fairfax, VA Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-03-2025 03:20 PM
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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