Proton-K

**angiolo** · #1 03-19-2017, 04:47 PM

Hi guys.
I've been out for a while but now I managed to finish this wonderful model by Leo.

I made some minor modifications for the sake of simplicity in the construction (such as the way the first and second stages connect).

I hope you like it.

**angiolo** · #2 03-19-2017, 04:48 PM

And of course the final shot

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**Mechanic** · #3 03-19-2017, 04:53 PM

That looks really nice; so what did you do to modify it?

**angiolo** · #4 03-19-2017, 04:57 PM

Hi.
Pure imagination in fact xd. The connections in the truss joining the first and second stages seemed rather unstable for me so I replaced it by small paper tubes in the second stage so that they can fit more rigidly the red thin rods in the first stage top truss.

**PhantomCruiser** · #5 03-19-2017, 06:50 PM

Looks amazing! Well done! How tall is it fully assembled? I managed to sneak a 1:96 scale Saturn V past the wife, but I'd risk her wrath to make anything that tall again.

**angiolo** · #6 03-19-2017, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PhantomCruiser

Looks amazing! Well done! How tall is it fully assembled? I managed to sneak a 1:96 scale Saturn V past the wife, but I'd risk her wrath to make anything that tall again.

Hi. Roughly speaking the final model is 63cm tall (slightly taller than the Proton-M model). This model is 1:96, so a 1:48 one must be very impressive!

**dhanners** · #7 03-20-2017, 01:01 AM

Lovely build! Thanks for sharing the photos.

**Davej** · #8 03-24-2017, 08:01 AM

Great build. It is on my (long) list of rockets to build.
Thank you.

**southwestforests** · #9 03-24-2017, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by angiolo

I made some minor modifications ...

Yes, the "And I've made special modifications myself" tradition of great spacecraft. Or spacecraft models.