Dave, does anyone you know of currently make a 1/100 Saturn IB model?? I really wanted a 1/100 Saturn IB and Saturn V, but now I'm thinking of scratchbuilding a BT-80 based Saturn V in 1/150 (roughly) to go alongside a Dr. Zooch Saturn IB, which is roughly 1/150. Even been thinking of downscaling my (as yet unfinished) Ares I 1/100 to 1/150 also...

Later! OL JR

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Well, Carl, if Night Tripper's e-mail response from Estes is true (release in July 2009), it'll be
too late to build in case we have an Apollo - 11/Saturn - V Celebration like we had for the
Apollo - 7/Saturn 1-B. Which reminds me, are we having another "plan in the works" like
this? If I'm gonna be involved, I might need a little more time for the build than I had for
the Saturn 1-B project.......

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Jeff, I'm not aware of any who make the 1/100 size Saturn 1-B; the closest is Dr. Zooch's
version, which (I might add) looks really good for the price. When I saw the Estes (Centuri
rethread) 1/100 Saturn 1-B at the Maker's Faire in Austin several years back (with some
of the Estes corporate staffs present), I was hoping they'd tell me such a kit was forthcoming, but I got no such tip . You'll really be better off by going with the
SEMROC 1/70th kit, especially if you like to feel a sense of accomplishment of having
"made it through" such a complicated model.

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With all Estes announcements I have learned to live by a motto.

"I'll believe it, when I see it." Estes seems to enjoy teasing us with tidbits, them ripping them away. (e.g. Shrox kits)

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So why does everybody ignore the Peter Alway Saturn V at 1/195th scale?

It doesn't even get an honorable mention.

It's a beautiful model and only $50 from BMS

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I didn't ignore it! I've only had it for nearly four years! Just like your LTV Scout. And your Nike Hercules (but I have started building that one! Of course there's been no progress on it since October -- it bled off the excess building energy after the Saturn 1b!)

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Good to hear you're still going through with it. I've got a gift certificate with Saturn V written all over it.

I didn't even know it existed until you mentioned it. Now I'll have to look.

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Sorry, forgotten about that one. Hardly see any pictures of the actual model, so maybe that's why it escaped my mind.

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Roy, I didn't mean you "personally".

I meant whenever there is a discussion about the Saturn V and the kits that are available, the Peter Alway kit from BMS is just never or rarely mentioned.

I saw it in the prototype stage and Peter, who is in our club and brought it to a meeting, basically assembled the entire model without glue. It is that precicely made.

Even the body tube is litely etched with a laser to show the location of the detail parts.

Really inovative!

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