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Old 09-15-2015, 01:41 PM
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Good to have someone else doing this too. My aim is to have everything done by July 2019 (50th anniversary of moon landing). That should give me plenty of time to start, stop, and start again! Best of luck to you.

And for the rest of you, still looking for an answer to the original post. If you are following this, you can probably tell that I really am a numbers geek, not an artist. I need your help!

Thanks all, Bob
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Old 09-15-2015, 01:46 PM
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BTW, I know this is getting off-topic, but I wanted to know. I built the 1:48 F1 engine - that's what got this whole project started for me. How difficult was it building the F1 at 1:72? Did you use paper throughout - there are a few small tubes...

Thx
Honestly, I'm used to building smaller than designed scale, so I found it to be rather easy. It's very well designed, so the parts fit together extremely well, which made me very happy. It is entirely paper - I used Hammermill Digital Color Copy 32lb (120gsm) for the 160-180gsm sheets, and ordinary 18lb copy paper (75gsm) for the 100-120gsm sheets.

The F-1 was a test build to see how hard it would be, and if I wanted to move forward with the rest. I'm also test-building a J-2 and the escape tower. The escape tower is turning out to be quite difficult - I may have to use thinner paper than recommended.
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Old 09-15-2015, 01:47 PM
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Good to have someone else doing this too. My aim is to have everything done by July 2019 (50th anniversary of moon landing). That should give me plenty of time to start, stop, and start again! Best of luck to you.
Well now I have a deadline, too. I look forward to exchanging notes as we build!
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Old 09-15-2015, 02:07 PM
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Edit: Out of curiosity, what measurements are you taking to get 1:46? Just as a sanity check, if you use the diameter of the former disks, 212mm, and the actual diameter of the Saturn V, 10.1m, the ratio is 1:47.6 - pretty close.
Just double-checked, and I was wrong - it's not 212mm, it's 216mm! Making the scale... drum roll please..... 1:46.5!

So I guess I'll be going back and rescaling everything by 64.676% instead of 66.667%. Again, thanks for the heads-up!
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Old 09-15-2015, 03:45 PM
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Ugh! Wish it wasn't so - it's a lot of work to do over. Better knowing it now than later...
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