In His Own Words: Interview with Neil Armstrong
Humble might be a word describing Neil Armstrong, focused is another.
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New CSM, LM and S-IVB parts for 1/200 Apollo 11 LUT project
For the past few weeks I've usually gotten one more swing arm for the LUT up each weekend, with corresponding work to the pad base. But for the past several days the pad and the mobile launcher have taken a back seat to improvements to [...]
Saturn V Mobile Launch Tower – swing arms
I got back to work on the LUT yesterday, intending to complete some piping, continue work on the launch pad support stands, and start figuring out how to model the swing arms.
The first two were straightforward, but the third involved what [...]
Saturn V Mobile Launcher – hard stand support pedestals
Most Saturn V mobile launcher/LUT models use the LUT to show off the crawler/transporter that transported the complete stack from the VAB to Pad 39, as shown above. As handsome as this, I decided to show my LUT on the pad instead for two [...]
Saturn V Launch Umbilical Tower fueling pipework
The various pipes needed to fuel the Saturn V ran up Side 2 of the LUT, attached to a frame, as shown in the B&W photo of LUT #1 during construction (the foreground is LUT #2).
I started working on adding this frame last week (closeup [...]
Progress on the 1/200 Saturn V Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT)
After several weeks off I finally got a day in the model workshop yesterday, which extended late into the night and several more hours this afternoon. While I made some progress on the 1/700 Hood and Arizona, the giant leap, to borrow a [...]
Saturn V Mock Up
This is the Dragon Saturn V in 1/72nd scale ! Yikes it is big, and still need to add the escape tower, but I wanted to mock it up and see how it looked.
Still lots of work to go for seam clean up , puttying, priming and detail [...]
