matthewdlaudato
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I downloaded the Estes 1/70th scale Apollo capsule instructions a while back. I was just curious... the part where you have to take the escape tower doweling and sand it's diameter down by drawing across a sandpaper sheet made my eyes bug out! Back in the early '70s I was 14 and a hobby store had the Ib and the V on the shelf. I jonesed over the Ib for a long time and I finally had the cash scrapped together (~ $10) for the kit. I had the Ib in hand and the guy behind the counter said he'd give me the V for the same price! After reading the capsule instructions all these years later I sure as heck am glad I took the V!!! There is no way I could have done a clean build of this kit back then... just didn't have that kind of patience.
All that said, I cannot wait to see it fly! It's going to be fantastic!
Looking good, there are a LOT of body tubes in there!
looks great so far! The fairings turned out great! Does the kit come with decals? Are you going with Apollo 7 (black tanks) or the white tank Skylab/ASTP? either way its going to look awesome!
As masterNJ (AKA Mr Sat 1B) can tell you, pre painting the fuel tanks would have made painting a lot easier, on any scale Sat 1B.I’m going with the recommendation in the instructions - which is Apollo 7 style, combination of black and white tanks and fins. Fairly complex paint job ahead.
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