Quite an impressive model SR71

[tangerine_sedge]

Eric Mc said:

XB70 said:

About 10 years ago, I read about a fellow in the states who made a gargantuan Saturn V, to scale (I think he had plans - Eric, we will have to disagree on this one!!)

Anyways, the tower was also a scale replica including a system of arms that, as the rocket was due to launch, would swing back as with the real thing.

Having built it, and when it was time to launch it, he decided that he could not do it and donated it to a musuem.

It was truely staggering - I will see if the article is on the net somewhere

It's relatively easy to make a scale replica Saturn V without access to drawings for the originals. NASA themselves built a 1:1 scale dummy test vehicle (the V500F/Static Test Article or STA) when they conducted pad tests and vibration tests in 1965/66.

This dummy Saturn V can always be identified by the fact that it had a black horizontal band painted above the black vertical stripes on the 1st Stage. None of the real Saturn V's had this.

AHA! In the recent Airfix club magazine, they had a build guide for the Saturn V. The builder pointed out the extra black markings (as Airfix indicate in their instructions), but mentioned that the 'real' version never had these. It's obvious that Airfix based their model on the full scale model!

[Eric Mc]

They certainly did - as did all the model companies who released kits in the 1960s.

Airfix are re-releasing the Saturn V iminently (within the next few days, hopefully). Some of the shape inaccuracies in the original mouldings are being corrected and I assume the painting instructions will now give the correct colour scheme.

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

[dr_gn]

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

[TheEnd]

dr_gn said:

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

guess he never watched this before his acrobatics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaAVN94sTs

[Eric Mc]

dr_gn said:

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

That's why I stick to Airfix kits (not literally of course).

Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 28th July 22:15

[Zad]

For anyone interested, Rick Sternbach and Mat Irvine are both active contributors to the "Space Modelers" forum on Yahoo. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/space-modelers/messa...

Real and fictional space modelling doesn't get much more definitive than those two blokes

[Eric Mc]

I've met Mat Irvine a couple of times. He's an interesting chap to talk to.

He puts on a display at Telford ScaleModelWorld every year.

Last year he had original models of K9 from "Dr Who" and Orac from "Blake's Seven".

[dr_gn]

Zad said:

For anyone interested, Rick Sternbach and Mat Irvine are both active contributors to the "Space Modelers" forum on Yahoo. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/space-modelers/messa...

Real and fictional space modelling doesn't get much more definitive than those two blokes

Is that the same Matt Irvine who used to be on Saturday Swap Shop back in the day?

[Eric Mc]

The one and only

He brought out a book on Scale Spacecraft Modelling a year or so which is very good.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

The one and only

He brought out a book on Scale Spacecraft Modelling a year or so which is very good.

God, I'm old.

[Zad]

Yep that's him. He has also worked with Airfix to update the Shuttle and Saturn V so they are closer to the design of the real machine.

[Eric Mc]

Didn't know that he was the technical advisor on the Saturn V revised mouldings.

I can't wait for it to come out.

[nick heppinstall]

Watch these guys and be amazed. At first you think they are taking the pi$$. Pretty soon you realise they are about 1 inch away from genious....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTKJU6PlkA&fea...

[mybrainhurts]

Superb Blackbird...

Can you imagine the crew of a police helicopter cacking themselves if that approached...?

Edited by mybrainhurts on Wednesday 29th July 20:12

[dr_gn]

nick heppinstall said:

Watch these guys and be amazed. At first you think they are taking the pi$$. Pretty soon you realise they are about 1 inch away from genious....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTKJU6PlkA&fea...

God that looks tedious. Far more fun to use one of these to scan your plastic models in:

http://www.metris.com/large_volume_metrology/laser...

Transfer point data to a solid model , and then machine it out of a solid foam block on a stupidly expensive 5 axis CNC mill.

Ah well, each to thier own!

[nick heppinstall]

dr_gn said:

nick heppinstall said:

Watch these guys and be amazed. At first you think they are taking the pi$$. Pretty soon you realise they are about 1 inch away from genious....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTKJU6PlkA&fea...

God that looks tedious. Far more fun to use one of these to scan your plastic models in:

http://www.metris.com/large_volume_metrology/laser...

Transfer point data to a solid model , and then machine it out of a solid foam block on a stupidly expensive 5 axis CNC mill.

Ah well, each to thier own!

[slartibartfast]

dr_gn said:

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

that B52 crash apparently pilot error! expensive error at that.

Paul

[dr_gn]

slartibartfast said:

dr_gn said:

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

that B52 crash apparently pilot error! expensive error at that.

Paul

The cheapest Wren gas turbine (and I don't know whether you caught it, but there were eight on that model) cost about £1100+vat. So £9k or so in engines alone. In a toy plane.

Why not stettle for just one turbine, a reasonable sized model and give the rest to charity or something?

[slartibartfast]

dr_gn said:

slartibartfast said:

dr_gn said:

Bernie-the-bolt said:

Now this is a big model.... B29 Superfortress

Although, as has been said....................what's the point?

Probably says a lot about me, but this one always has me in stitches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

Just want to punch the commentator in the face. Daft tt.

Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 28th July 21:49

that B52 crash apparently pilot error! expensive error at that.

Paul

The cheapest Wren gas turbine (and I don't know whether you caught it, but there were eight on that model) cost about £1100+vat. So £9k or so in engines alone. In a toy plane.

Why not stettle for just one turbine, a reasonable sized model and give the rest to charity or something?

Yeah, 8 Wren MW44's, probably the best of the small jet engines around, 8-10lbs thrust from an engine the size of a coffee cup, infact if i remember correctly the MW44's are about £1400 but might be wrong on the figure, either way it's an expensive end to 8 of them.

My idea jet is something with a small engine like an MW44 bolted ontop of a funfly aircraft, the sort of thing you can have fun with but it doesn't take an hour to get ready, all my jets are a little too big for a funfly though.