Aussie-Pete Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) All 1/72 scale Rocket scale comparison byPeter Ede, on Flickr Rocket scale comparison by Peter Ede, on Flickr Rocket scale comparison by Peter Ede, on Flickr Edited February 5, 2018 by Aussie-Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
K2Pete Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I'll assume these are your builds Aussie-Pete ... Are they the Horizon offerings ... and the Saturn V ... is ... ? Having lived through the Space Race, and looking back now, it amazes me to see the quick evolution of these launch vehicles ... Mercury Redstone to Saturn V in those short years. The size comparison, even in 1/72, is cool to see. Thanx! Pete ... Canadian Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Yes Pete. the Saturn is the Dragon and both Mercury are horizon. I'm hoping the rumoured new model is the Gemini in 1/72 :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slartibartfast Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) I echo everything K2Pete wrote. Edited February 7, 2018 by Slartibartfast Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ret Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Beautiful! - I like the bit of upgrading you did on the Dragon Apollo LES. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Every time I look art the Dragon Saturn V all the inaccuracies just make me want to cry. I'll never understand why their Apollo has such relatively accurate detail yet the Saturn booster is so toy-like. It's as if they were designed by two completely different companies.... I do like the Horizon kits, looking forward to a Gemini Titan from them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 I can forgive the Apollo errors. It's big :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anj4de Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 ...same here...it's really a shame to see what oppotunities Dragon missed. The time and money spend on doing it right is not more then doing it wrong. It's a masive failure on motivation and/or mental power that led to such 3rd class results. My hope is that Airfix will follow their re-newal policies and will come up with a new tool S5 and S1B and maybe a new LM for the 50th anniversarry. Fingers crossed...;-) cheers Uwe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnlove_mk_II Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Those look great Pete. I've stashed away quite a few Horizon kits. They're top notch, and one could only hope they'll produce the Titan. I'd be in for a few of those for sure. I've mulled over Dragon's Saturns for some time now. It's a shame they didn't do just a bit more ... but I am happy they did produce them. They are pretty impressively big, even with the toy-like appearance. As a matter of fact I've picked up a few the Skylab kits at local hobby contest/swap for a very reasonable price. It's been a tremendous amount of fun just throwing them together adding minimal details here and there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 It would be a gross oversight if no model company produced any new Apollo models for next year. Horizon have a Juno coming out on top of a Redstone. I'll probably get but they need to do Gemini next. I need CSM and Lunar modules. Had them, lost them (stolen) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anj4de Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 A new tool (and this time correct) CSM and LM are more then due, especially for next year. 48 or better 32 would be great and please let it be a major player...like Tamiya! cheers Uwe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 3 hours ago, anj4de said: A new tool (and this time correct) CSM and LM are more then due, especially for next year. 48 or better 32 would be great and please let it be a major player...like Tamiya! cheers Uwe There are many new players making very good models. Hasegawa, Eduard, Tamiya, Horizon-Models to name a few. But they have to be a matching pair. Oh and a lunar rover :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 18 hours ago, Aussie-Pete said: Horizon have a Juno coming out on top of a Redstone. I'll probably get but they need to do Gemini next. I’d like to see them do an Atlas Agena to compliment the Gemini Titan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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