Certain design elements from the early 1950s known as the "Collier Magazine" or "Von Braun" Moon Rocket Design remained with the space program right through the APollo program. Here we see the Saturn LV, or "55", with the classic 55 engines main stage. This was used successfully to land men on the moon in 1978, after a series of Space Stations and Orbital Workshops had been built. The relaxed pace of designing such an enormous launcher and ensuring the engines were reliable and powerful enough was likely made possible by the end of the Cold War in 1954.
1/200 scale Saturn V by AMT combined with the 1/200 scale "Mars Probe" launcher by Lindberg. The stages fit together quite nicely, the diameters were amazingly close.
Alvis 3.1
