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Hey guys, hope ya'll are safe and well.
I'm back to attempt another fun build this time I've chosen a 'real space' model of the Revell 50th Anniversary 1/144 Saturn V Rocket.
I would've been 2yrs mini human at the time of it's historical launch so I can't really remember if I watched it or not but I did manage to catch a few there after on live black n white television as a youngster along with my brothers and sisters.
Model consists of 82 parts which includes the base (no clear parts), it stands 775 mm or 30.51" when completely assembled and mounted on it's base and is moderately detailed by which I mean, some of the inner details are lacking (the rocket bells) and are very much just basic shapes. I guess Revell's approach was people would only display the rocket in it's entirety and not in separate sections.
The exterior detail is good but not great as there's are a few issues to address that I noticed of which I will start on.
Stage one and the corrugated panels:
Going over the sprues there's a lot of flash present which I guess is a tell tale sign of this models age, I did a dry fit of the SI cylinder halves and noticed that they do not line up and that there's a bump along the corrugated panels where the cylinder halves join, I could've left the raised area as is but it would be noticeable and hard to ignore knowing that it's there, as for the the misalignment, it can be easily fixed.
I've begun working on one side which I've started sanding the raised area's down to even them out also re-scribing the panel lines which brings me to another noticeable find, the corrugated pattern is a shallow step type and not an actual groove so I had to go in on an angle with my scribing tool which presented my first challenge, don't slip and eff it up!
Top pics is the opposite side yet to be done where you can clearly see the bump, the bottom pics I've been working on to even them out.

Cheers.
I'm back to attempt another fun build this time I've chosen a 'real space' model of the Revell 50th Anniversary 1/144 Saturn V Rocket.
I would've been 2yrs mini human at the time of it's historical launch so I can't really remember if I watched it or not but I did manage to catch a few there after on live black n white television as a youngster along with my brothers and sisters.
Model consists of 82 parts which includes the base (no clear parts), it stands 775 mm or 30.51" when completely assembled and mounted on it's base and is moderately detailed by which I mean, some of the inner details are lacking (the rocket bells) and are very much just basic shapes. I guess Revell's approach was people would only display the rocket in it's entirety and not in separate sections.
The exterior detail is good but not great as there's are a few issues to address that I noticed of which I will start on.
Stage one and the corrugated panels:
Going over the sprues there's a lot of flash present which I guess is a tell tale sign of this models age, I did a dry fit of the SI cylinder halves and noticed that they do not line up and that there's a bump along the corrugated panels where the cylinder halves join, I could've left the raised area as is but it would be noticeable and hard to ignore knowing that it's there, as for the the misalignment, it can be easily fixed.
I've begun working on one side which I've started sanding the raised area's down to even them out also re-scribing the panel lines which brings me to another noticeable find, the corrugated pattern is a shallow step type and not an actual groove so I had to go in on an angle with my scribing tool which presented my first challenge, don't slip and eff it up!
Top pics is the opposite side yet to be done where you can clearly see the bump, the bottom pics I've been working on to even them out.

Cheers.