Apollo 11 Saturn V + Starship 12/Booster 30
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I've been keen on spaceflight since childhood; my whole primary school sat cross-legged in the gym watching the first moonwalks on a 'big' B/W TV. I built the Airfix Saturn V with my Dad soon afterwards, finding that sellotape did not make great masking tape on corrugated surfaces! The various Space X rockets have recently rekindled my interest and a couple of years ago I was considering dropping CHF 360 on a 3d printed Starship from a guy in japan, with animated fins and LED lighting. Common sense prevailed, but the recent catch of the booster prompted me to look again. I found 3DModelsAndDesigns on Etsy selling 3d models of Starship in various scales either built or in kit form. They keep updating the design and I bought the S12/B30 combination that just made the pinpoint landing/catch in 1:144 kit form. I then decided to get a new 1:144 Saturn V for comparison and found a cheap 50th Anniversary Revell model from Germany on ebay. This Revell model is simply a reissue of the original kit. The internals are not accurate and the instructions show the paint scheme from the Saturn V prototype. Only the boxart has been updated to represent the actual scheme on Apollo 11. For my purposes the internals are not an issue; I just want a size comparison with the Starship and booster. I may try and make the LEM and perhaps the Command Module to stand on the base, just to show how small the crew modules were in comparison to the launch vehicle itself.
