Wow those look great! Beautiful workmanship! KUTGW!!!
later! OL JR
the trick, as you pointed out is to steam them and to align them on the dowel when you start to roll them...honestly, I love the Zooch Saturn 1b....just an awesome kit. :bangbang:
there are some small details on the Zooch 1bs...the launch escape tower takes some time and patience...the real challenge on the Saturn 1b kit is rolling the first stage tanks...they are not cardboard tubes but rather sheets of card stock paper....you have to cut them, steam them, and then roll them as tightly as you can using a small dowel that is supplied with the kit. Once you get the hang of the tanks, the rest of the kit is pretty straight forward in my opinion... I would say the 1b stands about 18 inches tall when you are done with the other variants somewhat smaller. They fly like champs...stable as a rock...and they cost $25! I want to get involved with scale building, but probably will go for the larger models. I honestly don't think I have the skills to build the smaller ones. Fat fingers and thumbs is my middle name. Maybe with the larger Saturns I might have a better chance at it? Your models are remarkable. Thanks so much for sharing...I'm speaking for all of us when I say we can all appreciate the time and effort that went into building these exceptional model rockets.
Hi Afterburner...thank you for the kind words....I do appreciate them
Dr. Zooch has just a great selection of scale rockets...also the completed rocket generally fits back in the card board box they are shipped in...for someone like me that lives in a small house, it allows you to store them in sturdy boxes that take up no room! His Saturn 5 kit is pretty neat too!
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I want to get involved with scale building, but probably will go for the larger models. I honestly don't think I have the skills to build the smaller ones. Fat fingers and thumbs is my middle name. Maybe with the larger Saturns I might have a better chance at it? Your models are remarkable. Thanks so much for sharing...I'm speaking for all of us when I say we can all appreciate the time and effort that went into building these exceptional model rockets.
Hehehe... (Darth Vader voice on)...
"You have learned much, young one... you have controlled your fear... NOW, join me, and I will complete you're training... together we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy... we can rule the galaxy as father and son! If you only knew the POWER of the dark side...:dark:" LOL
(Darth Vader voice off)
hehehe... don't give me a swelled head... (Yoda voice on) "Just passing on what I have learned..." (Yoda voice off).
Seriously, nice work... one of these days I have to get around to building mine...
Later! OL JR
GR8 work!!! Might as well collect the whole DZ collection.
They're both the same scale as the ant-scale Zooch Saturn Ib's (and Zooch Soyuz is in the same "ant-scale" as well-- handy!) so I need to put one of those IB's together so they all can sit together for pictures... LOL I've even been toying with the idea of a NOVA-Saturn C-8 in the same ant-scale, which would have a first stage of about 3 inches in diameter and 8 F-1 engines of course... maybe even tweak a paper model of the N-1 down to the same ant-scale and do it too... Too many ideas, not enough time...
Another project I need to get back to. The choice of motor mounts was stymying me and I'm STILL not 100% sure of what I want to do about that. It was either HAVE to make a decision on the motor mounts or work on the towers for the capsules, so I sorta let the thing hibernate... but I DO need to get back at it...
Course now I also have to do vacation pics and get them organized and I'm working on a special project with Dr. Zooch... so I probably won't be finishing the Saturn for a few weeks at least...
Later! OL JR
) Anyway, seems they're getting ready to open their new "off base" museum (as it is now, you can ONLY access CCAFS after a security check and with a driver's license via the "Then and Now" tour via tour bus, which only gives you about 45 minutes at the CCAFS museum on base and the rocket garden.) I've read they've been planning to do an off-base museum for awhile. SO, naturally, I jumped at the chance!
Nope, not a beta... not yet anyway... dunno what Wes is up to on that score... Haven't heard of any new kits in the works. I know he has a couple projects on the back burner, but that's a ways off and neither here nor there...
I wasn't specifically prohibited from discussing it, so I guess it's okay... Wes asked me to build a couple kits for the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station museum at Cape Canaveral, Florida, which is cool, because I was JUST THERE about this time last week... went to KSC for three days interspersed with about a week at Disney, and we finished up at the Clearwater Marine Hospital at Tampa, to see Winter the Dolphin (from "A Dolphin Tale" movie), and a visit to the Air Force Munitions Museum at Eglin AFB in Fort Walton, Florida. (which was really cool-- not as cool as the VAB tour (first time tourists have been let in there in around 35 years! Or the tour of CCAFS and their rocket garden, Pad 5 and the blockhouse where Al Shepard lifted off in 1961, and Pad 34 where the Apollo 1 fire happened... Or the tour that took us inside Pad 39A... or the Saturn V building, or the rocket garden at KSC, or... I could go on and on... LOL
Hope Wes has something really cool up his sleeve, and if and when he tells me about it and gives me the OK, yall will be the first to know...
Later! OL JR
) Anyway, should be fun... Later! OL JR 
