Plus it's not exploding.

Engines haven't been started.

True.

That's going to be an interesting project.

Nice N-1.

3D printed?

Yes, maybe ABS?

I see it doesn't have the support struts between stages. N1 almost the same height at the Saturn V. Oh have you watched that Space Race alternate history series "For All Mankind"? The N 1 works in that one and the Soviets land on the Moon in June 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xy.....Pg5x1ipi2sAVpb

The kit does have them. This is just a test assembly. If the Soviets had taken a bit more time and money, as well as a different engine ignition style, they could have had a remarkable heavy booster.

I have an old Soviet model of a Soyuz - purchased it in 1991 at the Soviet Space touring exhibit that was in Ft. Worth Texas. Still in the Box, just one tear in the plastic wrapper. There was some impressive hardware at that exhibit, even a Lunakhod rover and some of their capsules and engines. I was doing a critique of the exhibit for a class I was taking on Museum Management. Got to be an interesting day - was when the Soviet Union was really starting to fall apart. The Soviet workers at the Exhibit had received word from home that things were going south in a hurry. Felt bad for them, they looked so damn scared.

I wonder if it was the same display that showed up at the Seattle Science Center way back when? It included a scale model of the big trench R-7 launch complex.

Big thing at Soviet Space was a walk thru mock up of a Saylut space station module. I loved that and then chatting with the guys who were running the working Lunakhod on a simulated lunar surface. I surprised them with my knowledge of their equipment - was a aviation and space geek from early on. I knew more than some Aerospace students from TCU that were gawking at the rover. One of the techs let me try the controls for it. Hmm found an old magazine article on the Exhibit https://www.dmagazine.com/publicati...../soviet-space/ Looks like it was just to be in Fort Worth for 6 months - didn't make it that long and I know a lot of the artifacts were later auctioned off to pay bills.

Damn, she's big.

Thats what SHE said :p

There was an 8-ft tall one at NSL 2014. A large number of G-motors in the first stage. It hung up on the launch rail and destroyed itself.

A very realistic model indeed

Wow, I bought an 1/144th 3D-printed one, I just can imagine the size of your beast... You should show your hand right next to it to let some people see how really huge it is!!!

Nice, and I recognize the TWA shuttle from 2001 also 😉

I was going to say Pan Am, but it has ben a while since I viewed it.

Tou might be right, it's been a while for me also :)

I just remember the ping pong ball hats, not sure if that was the round or flat ship?

Round, the Moon lander one :) Damn, I'm surprised how much I remember about the movie. I haven't seen it in a while

It was PanAm, TWA wasn't involved that movie.

I like pictures like this as my eyes pan around like the prize camera on the old Wheel of Fortune show.

Cool stuff.

comrade rocket! XD

Wise. You'd have to stay so far back from the launchpad...

'S'funny, but I spent as much time reading the titles on the bookshelf as I did looking at the rocket...

Indeed.

forbidden buttplug

It's also interesting to get a glimpse of the contents of your bookshelf.

That's just one of four in my office/work space. Have a whole mini library of science fiction and fantasy down stairs.

One of my favorite "what-ifs" in aerospace history is if the Soviets had been given 2 more launches to get KORD properly dialed in. No chance they would have beaten Apollo to the Moon, but maybe we would have stayed there!