Current Events > Some pics from that Saturn V lego build.

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I forgot I was going to show you guys some images after I got it, so here's some finished build pics.



Top down view, trying to fit all forty inches of the set into frame. At thirty-nine inches, it makes this set a roughly one to one hundred and ten scale model of the actual thing.



Lower angle, showing the Lunar lander and Command module at splashdown. While the set came with four micro figs, only three astronauts flew in the actual mission.



Lunar Lander, with the three microfigs and the flag that they planted. The background clutter represents the various props scattered around inside the studio that was used to fake the moon landing.



Cutaway of the area that the lunar lander was stored during flight.



Closeup of the escape module that would fly off the rocket in case of an emergency. Useful only up to nineteen miles, it was discarded after reaching that altitude to shed weight.



Splashdown. After an extraordinary trip from Earth, to the moon, and back(at least thirty miles), this is all that remained of the world's most powerful machine ever built.



A minifig next to one of the 5(five) F1 rockets that combined produced seven million pounds of thrust, pushing the six and a half million pound Saturn V up forty-two miles in a little over two and a half minutes.
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Bump for day CE.
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Awesome. I always see restock updates on these at Kotaku.
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I got mine off Amazon. I know for a long while these sets were hard to keep stocked.
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Midday bump.

Without realizing, I posted this topic on the same day the actual Apollo 11 mission launched.
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trying to fit all forty inches

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Awesome set. How much do they go for?
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CommonJoe posted...

trying to fit all forty inches

Malcrasternus posted...

that combined produced seven million pounds of thrust

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Master_Bass posted...

Awesome set. How much do they go for?

Got mine for 135 after taxes. Pretty sure it's still in stock. If you have an interest in Lego, any interest in space, and about 5 hours, it's a steal. The instructions have a brief history on the rocket itself, and touches on how the set came to be.
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I dont like those mini lego guys.
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Chicken posted...

I dont like those mini lego guys.

Same, though for how tiny they actually are the detail is impressive. If they had used actual minifigs, the rocket would have to be almost 10 feet tall to be within scale.
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