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Ok, so for a variety of reasons, I'm not doing much with the Saturn IB at the moment, but that will change. In the meantime, I'm starting a Saturn V with the goal of having it ready for the 50th anniversary.
1:53 scale so the main body will fit a 7.5" body tube. My budget is non-existent for a while so I'm working with what I have. Mostly, that's filament for my 3D printer. A lot of this, especially the upper half will be 3D printed. It also lets me use a lot of the stuff I've already done for my Saturn IB.
The Saturn IB was done 1:22 scale. That's waaaayyyy too big for a Saturn V model, at least on my budget. I tried reworking some stuff in the new scale, but that turned out to be lot of work. Instead, I'm continuing to draw in 1:22 scale and scaling down when I print. The smaller scale does allow me to do more than I did with the IB, primarily because it fits on my printer. For example, the multi-piece launch escape system (LES) is now now just two pieces: the tower and everything above it. I can also add a lot more details which I'm still figuring out.
Initially I'm working with the top section. This is mostly common for the IB and the V, so the drawings I have work well. I still need to by the Saturn V drawings from real space models. As I said, budget.
Here's the teaser:
There's a lot more details coming. I just wanted to see what I had so far. My twitter feed will have the most immediate details, and I'll also be posting some videos on my YouTube channel. Let's see how that print is doing...
Ok, so for a variety of reasons, I'm not doing much with the Saturn IB at the moment, but that will change. In the meantime, I'm starting a Saturn V with the goal of having it ready for the 50th anniversary.
1:53 scale so the main body will fit a 7.5" body tube. My budget is non-existent for a while so I'm working with what I have. Mostly, that's filament for my 3D printer. A lot of this, especially the upper half will be 3D printed. It also lets me use a lot of the stuff I've already done for my Saturn IB.
The Saturn IB was done 1:22 scale. That's waaaayyyy too big for a Saturn V model, at least on my budget. I tried reworking some stuff in the new scale, but that turned out to be lot of work. Instead, I'm continuing to draw in 1:22 scale and scaling down when I print. The smaller scale does allow me to do more than I did with the IB, primarily because it fits on my printer. For example, the multi-piece launch escape system (LES) is now now just two pieces: the tower and everything above it. I can also add a lot more details which I'm still figuring out.
Initially I'm working with the top section. This is mostly common for the IB and the V, so the drawings I have work well. I still need to by the Saturn V drawings from real space models. As I said, budget.
Here's the teaser:
There's a lot more details coming. I just wanted to see what I had so far. My twitter feed will have the most immediate details, and I'll also be posting some videos on my YouTube channel. Let's see how that print is doing...