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MEGA BUILD THREAD - The Mighty Saturns 1/100 Scale
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Yes, they do. Vinyl ones at that.
Needs some touch-up but I painted the black onto SA-5's fin can.
Rocketry has been slow for me lately because of last month's release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Once I'm finished with it though, updates will be much more frequent.
Rocketry has been slow for me lately because of last month's release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Once I'm finished with it though, updates will be much more frequent.
Jimmy
I hope this works...
Oh heck yes!
Assembled stage 1 of SA-5.
SA-5 upper stack painted and dry-fitted to the first stage. I'm going to just let it sit and dry overnight before doing anything else with it.
If it is still in one piece after your little sweetie is done "seeing" it! 
SA-7 dry-fitted together after sanding the 3D-printed parts smooth.
Some parachute cords and decals for SA-5.
Looks like you're getting really nice sharp lines betwixt the black and white areas! Beautiful so far!
Thanks. I use the blue painter's tape with the edges carefully pressed down with my thumbs two or three times before doing any actual painting. It's not *perfect*, but you can't tell from these photos so I call it good enough.
Note that the checker pattern and black stripes on the upper stage are decals - I'm not *that* good!
Added a couple more black stripe decals, the hydrogen feed lines for the S-IV, and added a motor block to the back end.
Didn't really feel like doing precision detail painting the last couple of days, so I filled spirals in SA-7's tubes instead.
Some detail brushwork.
Antenna plates and ullage motors:
Nose tip:
Interstage scallops and black on the hydrogen lines:
Antenna plates and ullage motors:
Nose tip:
Interstage scallops and black on the hydrogen lines:
SA-5 tank decals and detail pieces installed. All it needs now is parachutes and nose weight to be ready to fly.
I might have to at some point! I was seriously happy to see they had come out with that. I believe the 1/100 Little Joe 1 and 2 will be my next order from Boyce.
Not really looking to buy more kits right this minute though as I have about a dozen in the build pile aside from the Saturns and HPR's I am working on right now, and I really try to keep my build pile size under control.
Final exterior touch - engine plate for display. Inserts into the motor mount. Clearcoat is next, but probably won't happen tomorrow since Elsa will be passing by in the evening.
Masked SA-7's fin can for paint.
Boyce recommended a 30" parachute for the booster and a 24" parachute for the nose. Getting these to fit in the small space you have for parachutes was... a challenge.
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They were the lightest ones Apogee had back when I was ordering the supplies for these Saturns, but looking at them I don't think the 30" is thin-mil. I made sure to order thin-mil ones for SA-7.
Anyway, .71 oz of lead pellets in the nose finishes off SA-5. The first of The Mighty Saturns is complete.
Just beautiful... And, is that a WWII flight simulator in the background of the 'chute stuffing post?
Not a simulator, just some old history channel DVD's I had playing. Great miniseries about the exploits of the CV-6 USS Enterprise.
Things have been quiet here because I have been working more on my HPR builds. One of them, the Phoenix, has a need-by deadline of August 14th. The build of SA-7 will continue in the latter half of August.
Wow. That's a problem I don't have yet.... But August 13th is my last working day (regular, then I become an as-needed consultant a couple of days a month). So I assume you'll be on duty for the N-G resupply launch on the 9th? Or isn't that going from Wallops?
ETA, sorry, the 10th...
I will be on duty for that launch (which is actually on the 10th) but right now we're also waiting to hear if the OFT-2 delays are going to affect us. There is only one available docking port, and OFT-2 is supposed to get it for four days before our Cygnus (SS Ellison Onizuka) arrives.
So yeah, we're well into pre-launch scrambling and then I'm going home every night spending my evenings working on the Phoenix.
Oh, yow, that's a good one! Traffic jam at the station! If the valves hadn't messed up on the mighty Atlas V, that does make it tight!
You won't have time for rockets in 15 years. You'll be fighting off the line of boys at your door.
Your daughter is very pretty, and will no doubt be bringing all kinds of fella's to you door...
I'm so glad I only had boys! I don't think I could have lived through raising a daughter.
The big thing is getting them to pick men (guys are a dime a dozen), and the best way to do that is to treat her with love and respect and both parents make sure she knows what a treasure she is. She doesn't have to settle, and she doesn't have to "put out" to get a real man, and above all, she doesn't have to put up with abuse.
In other news, looks like your docking port will be available, JS!
