Wow.
http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/prodd.asp?pid=DRW50388
http://www.flyingmule.com/products/DM-50388
As impressive as the real Saturn rocket system is, viewers of this Space Collection item from Dragon will cause jaws to drop and draw gasps of astonishment! While the model makes use of the Command/Service Module (CSM) and Launch Escape System produced earlier, the rest of this monstrous 1/72 scale rocket comes from brand new toolings. All the relevant detail is carefully reproduced on the three rocket stages, and the completed model comes with accurate painting and markings. The Saturn V is most suitable for display at home as a centerpiece of any space fan’s collection. It comes with a stable circular base to allow it to be freestanding on the floor. This is no miniature model, for it’s absolutely enormous even in 1/72 scale! Indeed, the fully built-up model stands almost 5 feet tall.
WANT.
6 Responses to “1/72 Saturn V”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
WANT
can’t buy it, Belgium version of IR$ are ravish me AGAIN
next to that Belgium postal service “Bpost” art too stupid to handle
2 boxes of 14.5″x14.5″x46.5″ or even bring them to my Home address intact
by the way
IR$ it title of Belgium comic strip series about US IRS and his super agent Larry B. Max…
Thank god that I didn’t start making a 1/72 SV kit! I wonder if there’d be any demand for a 1/72 ISS, it’d be nice to use that CAD model I built for my 1/25th ISS.
> Thank god that I didn’t start making a 1/72 SV kit
There may well be a market for kits to go with or modify this Saturn V. Forgetting for a moment my own preference for “projects,” I can see one area where they got the Saturn V wrong… the engines. They should have the foil insulation on ’em, but they don’t. There may be other inaccuracies that someone could capitalize on and make correction kits and decal sets for. A Skylab launch shroud.
Don’t know if it has J-2’s and whatnot between the stages. Given the size and the need to stay standing up, I’d guess not.
And you know that *some* crazy mofo is going to cobble together a launch tower for the thing.
The remaining Saturn 5 moon rockets should be coated in concrete and placed together in some hollowed place to be venerated by foreign tourists through the ages the same as the pyramids. The future tourists can wonder at the advanced civilization (for it’s time) that could produce such machines and how such a thing could have been built by the poverty stricken and backward 3rd world country in which they are exhibited.
Just a few years ago Apogee Components (apogeerockets.com) was selling a 1/70 scale Saturn V that was designed to fly as a single-stage model rocket. It had vac formed plastic for the corregated parts.
Estes did a limited run on their 1/100 Saturn V last year (I have one that I still intend to modify to fly as at least 3 stages). I have an old picture (film/paper) of an earlier 1/100 Sat V whose builder also built the launch tower, mobile base and launch pad.
I am really impressed with the Chinese fondness for all things space. You’d think a vehicle called Sea Dragon would be right up their alley–at 1/1 scale–and flying.