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Originally Posted by umtutsut
Gang,
A resin 1/72 XSL-01 is on tap for December. See:
XSL-01 Moon Rocket 1:72 Model Kit by Fantastic Plastic
Maybe one of our intrepid designers could beat them to it with a card model? We already have the Moonship, "just"  need the boosters.
 Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack) |
Yes, and the Resin Kit is $185! And the launch-pad isn't like the original, and no interior in the Lunar section.
I recently found an article on a French Forum. The fellow was "reclaiming" an old XSL-01 plastic kit, some parts were missing or broken. He decided to mix paper and plastic modelling to rebuild it. But he went a step further and constructed all the stages. Apparently Revell cut the height of the original concept model to keep the price down (it sold for $1.98 in 1957) and to make it fit in a standard box.
The modeller is Jan Kytop.
I would love to do the whole thing in paper/card, if possible.
Here is the link where you can see it with all four stages:
Fusée XSL-01 Moon Rocket [Papier/Plastique 1/96 ] sur base Revell