Lunar Module LM 1:32 Model FOR Revell Command Service CSM, THE ORIG. USA MAKER

IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ
UNBUILT
–
PAPER
MODEL
THE ORIGINAL U.S.A. MAKER…
1000s of satisfied
builders…!
This is the original U.S.A. designed and produced, Edu*Craft Diversions’ Lunar Module No. 5 (Apollo 11’s) 1:32 Craft Model, not the China clone…
From Burbank, U.S.A.
The Edu*Craft Diversions LM-5 design is:
– Easier to build.
– Much stronger design for handling.
– Exquisite artistry.
– Absolutely & authentically detailed to the real article down to micro levels.
– Actual realistic result.  (Other companies have mistakenly used Edu*Craft
Diversions’ ad photography thinking it was of the Apollo 11 mission!)
– All production supplies are from U.S.A.
PLEASE NOTE
:  THE PICTURES ARE OF
EDU*CRAFT DIVERSIONS’
BUILT
LM-5 1:32 CRAFT
HEAVY-PAPER
MODEL, NOT AN ACTUAL NASA PHOTO.   PHOTOS SHOW THE RESULT…!  You build the article.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is an
UN-BUILT
PAPER-CRAFT
model.
Please read description
… NOT MADE BY REVELL… IT IS PRODUCED BY EDUCRAFTIVERSIONS ORG.
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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
:
50 quantity
11” x 17,” Heavy
(32 lb. rated)
Paper
Printed Parts Sheets.
1 CD with the 225 Page
Procedures Manual as a PDF file.
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.
ADDITIONAL
INFO – PLEASE READ FOR BEST RESULTS
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
:
Ability to view data CD (not DVD) files and PDF documents.
Tools: Sharp Scissors, craft
knife, needle nose pliers, large sharp straight edge for fold
embossing.
White Glue (Elmer’s
Brand, IE.), “Super” glue, and scotch tape.
Several marking pen
types: Metallic Gold, Metallic Silver, Black (Fine & Full Tip),
Common Text Hi-Liter (blue or purple for window tint)
Probes For Glue
Application and Fine Parts manipulating (toothpicks, Sharp
Pencil, e.g.).Tweezers, Paper Clips, Clothes Pins for “Clamping”
parts.
Common Household
Corrugated Cardboard For Sub-support, in Varied Thicknesses.
(Corrugated cardboard is actually the
recommended media for sub-support than, say balsa wood, resin or
polystyrene plastic, since it affords the needed flex properties needed
for this design.)
Small
Containers/Envelopes for Parts Organization.
Standard Pencils.
Optically clear,
transparent plastic (as sourced from common product packaging).
4 or so types of gold,
copper and silver colored metallic foil (as sourced from craft suppliers, or better yet, specified food or
snack packaging).
Several sizes of paper
clips, for various struts, landing gear, etc., as base rod stock.
Wire extracted from twist ties for fine
antenna assemblies.
A few sizes of
stick and safety pins as both tools and rod stock.
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 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 hand built, flown article was.
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.
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 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.
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.
PLEASE NOTE
:   These are printed to order so please
add 1 additional week of delivery time expectation.  The printing
company sometimes experiences delays so delivery time will be adjusted
accordingly.  Posting of items is made about once a week, so delivery
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international posting in general, but a package has rarely been lost… 
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