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This is an un-built, paper, art craft model of Apollo 11, Lunar Module Number 5 (LM-5)... The greatest vehicle ever produced by humankind, in a static display homage to one of the most inspired moments of all human history.
To display with Revell’s Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) 1:32 scale (No. REV 5086) (not included).
Will require many extra supplies (not included) listed further below---
SKILL LEVEL: Advanced
I'd bet some of our more precise builders could do a much better job of the build than me... topping me out...
THE CRAFT MODEL INCLUDES:
These will be sent without commercial packaging with the printed parts sheets rolled, in simple postal packaging to keep prices at a minimum.
Please message if further information is desired.
Expect full support for this item. As with all Edu-Craft*Diversions’ items... Replacement parts sheets will be supplied at little or no cost if catastrophic failure is encountered... If concerns are encountered upon receipt and inspection, please contact prior to official action.
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Be sure to have a look at the other EduCraftDiversions org craft kits... to get an idea of what Edu-Craft*Diversions achieves with its paper models!
Unlike Edu-Craft*Diversions’ other models, this project will call for
the builder to supply a higher degree of their own support supplies... mostly
common household materials, in a method we’ll call, “MacGyver-ing.” After all... if Grumman can build the original LM design article using paper clips... why not us?
Some other less common supplies will also be needed. This is due to the LM’s intricate design and assemblies; antennas, struts, foil etc... All of which are advised for easier sourcing.
Examples of needed supplies (not included) are:
In a way, we’re emulating Neil and Buzz’s Apollo 11 MacGyvering to fix the ascent engine switch on the lunar surface using a felt tip pen... or Apollo 17's Duct Tape repair of their Lunar Rover Fender... or those Grumman engineers who would build prototype models using paper clips and cellulose media...
Edu*Craft Diversions seeks to reproduce the actual artifact, with all of its design, manufacture and usage appearance, without much need for paint... It emulates the feel of how the actual individually hand built, flown articles were.
The 220 page Procedures will guide you through, step by step in producing all of the model details shown. It will just be a simple matter of going one small step at a time... resulting in a magnificent fabrication... with a stark beauty, all its own...
Every detail of the design has been dutifully documented and worked out as well as the procedures for their execution. For example, the double-helix Omni-Directional antenna will utilize a supplied form-jig procedure included in the parts sheets. Any experienced modeler, with a bit of patience, a fair eye and a steady hand can achieve, or surpass the shown results.
Special procedures and techniques were developed for configuring all of the fine, intricate parts, such as Landing Gear, Omni-Directional, Steerable, VHF and Rendezvous Radar antennas.
Are you a, “Go?”
Build time is comparable to Edu-Craft*Diversions’ Saturn V Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) 144, 100, 96, 70 or 72 scaled model or LM-5 Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY replica craft kits, but considerably less than our Space Shuttle 39A 144 & 72 scale Launch Complex kits.
If interested in having an LM-5 built for you, contact and will advise. Cost will be based on build time... Or, will advise in acquiring our built LM-5 1:32.
Every effort has been made to make this the most detailed, complete and accurate Lunar Module model available anywhere, with all assemblies finely designed:
- Removable Landing Pad Contact Probes
- All Hatches Can Be Posed Open or Closed
- Radar, Steerable and EVA Antennas Articulate
- Poseable Landing Radar
- Deployable MESA (Modular Equip. Stowage Assembly w/TV Cam)
- Tranquility Lunar Surface Display Stand
- Removable Forward Cabin with Accurately Researched Interior
- “Capsule Occupants”
- Removable Docking Drogue
The Landing Gear does NOT retract.
The strenuously researched LM sub structure detail accurately depicts LM
without its thermal coatings Kapton “foil” and panels installed and would
itself, make for a worthy display article to go along side Revell’s CSM 1:32
model, which also displays exposed internal structures. See pictures.
Original Grumman scaled drawings were obtained and used for the design process:
- In-house, 1968 Grumman Document, Report to NASA ARP 325-7B
- Landed Angle Grumman #DWG LDW320 -23103 Scaled Drawing
- Hardpoints Volumetric Constraints Grumman #ASK328-11028 Scaled Drawing
Locating and obtaining these scaled drawings, in and of itself, was no small feat since, incomprehensibly; all Grumman LM production blueprints were destroyed at the conclusion of the Apollo program. ...Few are known to exist today. What is available now are essentially public relations and/or generic, unscaled early LM diagrams. These common online diagrams and resources we considered to be either unreliable, unclear to interpret, not applicable to precise spacecraft dimensions or inconsistent with each another.
A Lunar Module Grumman Contractor Model was also obtained and utilized for overall reference. This is the same type Toppings model that was always utilized during the Apollo Program for NASA public affairs, press conferences with Neil and Buzz, mission demonstration and television news broadcasts. It was always seen next to Walter Cronkite during landing coverage. It too, a worthy addition to anyone’s manned space flight collection.
Other research was confirmed by direct visual interpolation of Apollo 11 mission, LM5 close-out and LM-5 production photography. 1,000’s of hours of research and design, over a period of a year and a half, have gone into producing this craft model.
This model might also serve as an excellent candidate for adaptation to a flying R/C Quad Copter Lander, if built with internal or heavier structures omitted.
Suggestions for other LM-5 scales and/or other kit ideas are welcome...
ABOUT LM-5
Lunar Modules varied in appearance from mission to mission. If this is intended to be used as a basis for a film project, please be advised, the scheme for this model is that of a dedicated LM-5, Apollo 11 and no other missions. Each Lunar Module was individually hand built by Grumman, Bethpage, NY, under advisement of their corresponding flight crews. The process took over a year to complete and by launch date, the vehicle had quite a gone-over and amended look. Apollo 9 Astronaut Jim McDivitt called the Lunar Module, “The Tissue Paper Spacecraft.”
As with all Edu-Craft*Diversions' kits, the build experience will benefit from the same kind of focus exhibited by the very astronauts who operated the spacecraft. The build is likened to a sort of astronaut psychological test... as seen in the The Right Stuff dvd.
In the Imax Hubble film, Astronaut Story Musgrave, who performed the space walk to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, shared how he had a myriad of tiny screws to work during the spacewalk retrofit. He had to adopt a sort of Zen attitude towards the work. He focused on doing only one tiny screw each at a time, so by the end of the job, he had ostensibly worked just one tiny screw.
Sure to make for hours of fun build Diversion...
Let’s cook.
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Bare bones kit to reduce costs ... No commercial packaging... Comes rolled in postal packing.
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