Apollo Saturn

I remember building probably 50 years ago! What nostalgia.

The painting of the rocket was started with a good old rattle can of white primer for the main parts and SMS black on the rocket nozzles. The fun started when I spent a good hour trying to mask off the black panels. Then I thought “what the *** am I doing?”. 50 years ago I hadn’t even heard of an airbrush and my brush painting, even today, isn’t that bad!

It’s so funny how, as we add more and more technical gadgets to our toolbox, we can forget that the simplest of tools are still more than capable of doing as good, if not a better job. So, tomorrow, it will be out with the hairy stick and a nostalgic bit of brush painting 😁

Goodness, it’s bigger than I remember! All painted and decals applied, the Apollo Saturn V is now ready for a finishing coat of varnish. 

It is complete 😅

It was fun to construct (not really much modelling involved) and immensely nostalgic. I’ve wanted to build another of these for years and feel it’s a box ticked … I like ticking boxes 😂

This is the1:144 scale Saturn Apollo 11, the kit Airfix released in 1970 celebrating the First Manned Moon Landing on 16 July 1969.

P.S. photographing it is near impossible, but hopefully this gives you enough of a view to see how it ended up.

Meanwhile, I now need to decide where to display it and until I find somewhere suitable the only place with sufficient space is my office windowsill … it’s so big!!