LUT 1/96

[Bigfoot57]

Greetings


No idea if anyone will find this of interest or not but here's how far I've got with the LUT or Launch Umbilical Tower in 1/96 scale I also have the Saturn V to go with it when it's finished


This is the result of 3 months work numerous rebuilds and mods bodged etc its not perfect but the overall effect is pretty good anyway here's a picture of it so far


Regards


Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Sorry


Here's the pic

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[eddiesolo]

Very nice Colin, so come on is this the kit or totally scratch made...tell us man

[Bigfoot57]

Very nice Colin, so come on is this the kit or totally scratch made...tell us man

50 50 the kit or should I say card comes from NASA and you have to build the main base out of either thick card or a wooden frame then cover it with the supplied card the rest is flat printed card that is cut out and then folded and glued into place


Except on my model every single strut has a Chinese wooden skewer sized and cut and then embedded into the rolled card tube for strength and rigitidty and the decks have bracing struts on their undersides again for bracing and strengthening and the central core has a 4ft length of multi compressed and glued corrugated card plank for want of a better word which is why I said at the beginning 50 50 I enclose a couple of the 161 pictures taken so far of its construction

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[Bigfoot57]

Sorry guys can seem to get the attaching photos to work correctly here's another picture showing the skewer inserts

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[Snowman]

Cool build!!

[eddiesolo]

50 50 the kit or should I say card comes from NASA and you have to build the main base out of either thick card or a wooden frame then cover it with the supplied card the rest is flat printed card that is cut out and then folded and glued into place
Except on my model every single strut has a Chinese wooden skewer sized and cut and then embedded into the rolled card tube for strength and rigitidty and the decks have bracing struts on their undersides again for bracing and strengthening and the central core has a 4ft length of multi compressed and glued corrugated card plank for want of a better word which is why I said at the beginning 50 50 I enclose a couple of the 161 pictures taken so far of its construction

Interesting, well it certainly fits the bill should look awesome when it is all finished with the mighty Saturn V in place.

[Guest]

That well look Cool with the rocket in place, look forward to the combined result

[papa 695]

Nice one Colin some very good work

[flyjoe180]

Very nice work Colin, that's going to look A1 with the Saturn next to it.

[Bigfoot57]

Latest update after 2 weeks of scratch building entire propellants delivery piping on side 1 to replace flat card version supplied. Pipes are made from drinking straws and the framework their attached to resembling a pair for want of a better word budgie ladders made from 1/4" balsa currently attaching those red support rings 55 out of about 97 you can see then the pipes ends need further extensions added to attach them to the various deck branch offs after that need to go over that section tidying up and finally with paint to finish it off then onto the 9 swing arm assemblies etc

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[monica]

Nice scratch building, Colin some very good work,will look great once the Saturn is with it,

[Guest]

Nice work there mate should look the dogs with the rocket attached.


scott

[Bigfoot57]

Hello to all thought I would give you an update on this build not much progress at the moment due to my wanting to add extra detail


I have now put in the feed off piping from each of the pipes running up the tower as per picture I've also decided I wanted to model the railings on each deck and after failed attempts with card wire & balsa all which looked awful and were out of scale I came up with the following which I'm sure the model shipbuilders will know about


I built a jig out of scrap wood and used thread glued then painted and finally varnished see the attached pictures they can show you better than I can explain anyway the end result is perfect and because it's on a jig every other one should be the same carefully cut out and mounted on 1mm square balsa as a base to attach them to the tower decks 1 down 71 more to go they are the right scale and will make a huge difference to the model and my satisfaction


Regards


Colin

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[Bigfoot57]

Another update still constructing and installing railings up to deck 9 now so half way in between waiting for the glue / varnish to dry on the threads for the railings on the jig I decided to roughly build the swing arms stage 1 was to basically put each one together minus it's pipework as I'm not impressed with the flat cardboard renditions and will be scratch building using various diameter sized tubes to represent the various hoses etc that go with each arm these will then connect with the previously installed pipework on the side of the tower

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