Moon Rocket Cutaway LITE (Saturn V style)

NOT TEST PRINTED. I have not printed this one yet. It passes my software checks (watertight, one body per file, flat on the bed, fits a 220 x 220 mm bed, no supports, parts fit together) and the picture is a render, not a photo.

Full version: the full model with all parts is on Cults: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/moon-rocket-cutaway-desk-model-saturn-v-style

A free sample of a cutaway desk model. This is the first stage of my paid Moon Rocket Cutaway Desk Model (Saturn V style), at the same full size as the paid parts. The white stage shell has a window down the front, and the tank core inside it, in a contrasting colour, shows the two propellant tanks with their domes and a feed line. They stand on a small round plinth with my embossed roundel and the word LITE.

It is a display model only, not a toy. It is a generic model in the style of the original, not a licensed replica, and it carries no logos, flags, names or trademarks.

How it goes together

The shell has the same D shaped spigot as in the full model, and it drops into a D shaped bore in the plinth and rests on a 45 degree seat. The flat of the D lines the window up with the front of the plinth. The core drops into the shell from the top and sits on the bore floor.

What you get

• 01_lite_plinth.stl: round plinth, 68 mm across, with the roundel and LITE, about 14 g

• 02_stage1_shell.stl: stage 1 shell with the cutaway window, 86 mm tall, about 16 g

• 03_stage1_tank_core.stl: stage 1 tank core, drops into the shell, about 13 g

What you need

• About 43 g of filament in total (estimate), in two or three colours if you like

• About 3.2 hours of printing in total (estimate, not slicer output)

• No supports. Each part prints standing the way it is shown, and everything fits a 220 x 220 mm bed.

Full version

The full model with all parts is on Cults: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/moon-rocket-cutaway-desk-model-saturn-v-style

The full Moon Rocket Cutaway Desk Model is about 300 mm tall in 12 parts: all three stages with their own windows and tank cores, the aft skirt with five engines and four fins, the payload adapter with a small lunar lander inside, the service module, the capsule with its escape tower, and a square display stand with a name plate.

Honest notes

• Not test printed yet. Fits are checked in software only, with 0.25 mm to 0.3 mm clearances. If your printer runs tight, scale the core or insert down by 1 percent.

• In the full model the next stage up traps the core. Here nothing sits on top, so the core simply lifts out. That is handy for showing people, but do not carry it by the plinth upside down.

• The shell walls are 1.6 mm. Print it with at least three perimeters.

• Grams and hours are my estimates, not slicer output.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY NC 4.0). You may print, share and remix it with credit, but not for commercial use.

If you print one, I'd love to see it. Post a make with a photo, good or bad, and it helps me improve the next version.

Happy to tweak the design on request.