Lots and lots of spot filling around edges of wraps and at tunnel covers. It’s slow work, filling the gaps with small bits of epoxy clay. I think it’s just about finished, though! Here’s a look at the work; see, especially, near the left edge of the wrap above the tunnel cover.

The bane and boon of aging eyes. About 20 years ago, I first noticed that my near vision was starting to go, ever so slightly. (I had a hard time distinguishing the pins of a min-DIN8 connector.) The eyes are now to the point that for all the fine construction work and fine finishing work, […]

As I get closer to finishing building the Saturn V’s structural components and beginning the finishing, it’s time to think some more about Apollo 15’s details. Apollo 15, 16, and 17 included a space walk for the Command Module Pilot during the trip back from the moon. (This wasn’t just to give the CMP one […]

Which craft do I model: Apollo 8, 9, 11, 13, or 15? Not so trivial a decision, if I really want to have a reasonably accurate model. The S-IC stages had retro rockets. All of these missions used 8, except for Apollo 15, which used only 4. Some of the S-II stages used ullage rockets: […]