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Apollo Saturn V and Launch Umbilical Tower, Robinson-Forbes Art & Space Original

$ 35904

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Artist: Ian Robinson-Forbes
  • Originality: Original
  • Listed By: Artist
  • Size: Large (up to 60in.)
  • Date of Creation: 2000-Now
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Features: Signed
  • Subject: History

    Description

    For sale is a 1/96 scale mixed-media build of the Apollo 10 Saturn V at its Pad 39B Launch Complex. This is an original piece with a build time of over 8500 hours between 2012 and 2015, including over 18,000 hand made parts. Built of paper, wood, resin, styrene, aluminum and stainless steel, this historic replica includes:
    Full scale Saturn V with removable stages and mission-accurate markings.
    Mobile Launch Platform 3 and Launch Umbilical Tower with movable service arms.
    Launch Interface platforms and concrete hardstand.
    Each tower level has been researched using original archival photographs and contractor blueprints to accurately portray service equipment, hardware, and cable trays, ECS and propellant lines, railings, lamps and cameras.
    Colby Crane at top features movable boom.
    Currently the most historically accurate representation of the Saturn V Pad replica available.
    27
    3
    /
    8
    in. x  30
    1
    /
    2
    in. (base)
    64
    1
    /
    4
    in. (bottom of base to top of crane mast).
    For sale and signed by the artist, Ian Robinson-Forbes of Robinson-Forbes Spaceworks, Kansas City, Missouri.
    Local pickup is necessary as this model is fragile and contains many small parts. Can be disassembled partially for multiple moving.
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