Your Geeky Saturn / Moon Weekend?

[Gandahar]

Note that is not a Saturn moon for all your Daily Mail readers out there

Well mine started off with a bang, not literally, when the DPD driver dropped off my Lego Lunar Lander. Sadly he did not say whilst handing it over in it's brown cardboard box that defends against the Van Allen belts :-

"The eagle has landed"

No, he just said "Can you sign for this here please". I wonder if Mike, Buzz and Neil had to sign stuff like that?

Anyhow. I digress.

Here it is in it's first stage glory. My French hifi system in the background (Le Voyage dans la Lune 1902)

https://youtu.be/lmmg1MaW_VY

Interestingly they seem to have supplied a lunar rover which looks like a child rocket, perhaps due to money issues in Europe, and the sea landing air bags for the command capsule that looks like packaging! Perhaps that would have been fine on the sea of tranquility? With 1/6 g ?

[Zirconia]

I was going to go to Goonhilly for the 50th weekend. Decided to give it a miss, been away too much lately.

Listening to this instead.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
They are nearing completing LOI and about to come out from behind the moon.

[Terminator X]

Gandahar said:

Note that is not a Saturn moon for all your Daily Mail readers out there

Well mine started off with a bang, not literally, when the DPD driver dropped off my Lego Lunar Lander. Sadly he did not say whilst handing it over in it's brown cardboard box that defends against the Van Allen belts :-

"The eagle has landed"

No, he just said "Can you sign for this here please". I wonder if Mike, Buzz and Neil had to sign stuff like that?

Anyhow. I digress.

Here it is in it's first stage glory. My French hifi system in the background (Le Voyage dans la Lune 1902)

https://youtu.be/lmmg1MaW_VY

Interestingly they seem to have supplied a lunar rover which looks like a child rocket, perhaps due to money issues in Europe, and the sea landing air bags for the command capsule that looks like packaging! Perhaps that would have been fine on the sea of tranquility? With 1/6 g ?

That will be worth a fortune in 50 years time, you will be minted!

TX.

[Zirconia]

Airfix have the Saturn and Moon lander on pre order. Re release or new tooling I know not, either way I fancy my own rockets to get there.

[V8LM]

Lego’s Saturn V is v good. 1969 pieces (of course).

[Eric Mc]

Zirconia said:

Airfix have the Saturn and Moon lander on pre order. Re release or new tooling I know not, either way I fancy my own rockets to get there.

The kits are the slightly revised versions that were released in 2009.

The Saturn V kit is the original 1970 model but since 2009 the upper section of the rocket is a new moulding which corrects dimensional inaccuracies in the original kit. The Service Module was also retooled and now shows the correct radiator patterns for a Block 2 spacecraft.

[MrAndyW]

Built this last year with my grandson, Bit space mad in our house, even the dog is called Luna.

Edit for, It's 1.4mtrs high in total

[Zirconia]

What make is that?

[MrAndyW]

The rocket is Lego. The LUT is a design by a guy called Bailey Fullerton, He's an Australian who designed it from scratch. It took me about 6 months to collect all the bricks, Just over 4,000 pieces.

[Zirconia]

Ah, I can see it now. Quick shufty and I can see the kits for the Saturn V only (understood the rest is bespoke).

Thanks.

[Bungleaio]

We went to see the documentary last night and I have the lego lander that I'm going to build tomorrow.

I love the full rocket and Tower!