Rocket!

This looks like being the longest single post ever published in the Trees.  Even if mostly images.  

It's all about my 60th birthday present from work.  And what I did with it next.

Home. The box on the floor.

Twelve  Bags!

 Bag one:-

 Bag Two:-

 Bag Three:-

 Bag Four:-

 Bag Five:-

 Bag Six (Rocket Engines!):-

 Flip!

So. Six bags out of twelve used, on (huge) rocket stage built.
Bag Seven:-

 Bag 8:-

(I skipped some of the intermediary photos for that bag, I note).

Bag 9:-

 Bag 10:-

 Stage 2 Completed!  Fitting to Stage 1:-

Two stage completed, in ten bags!
Bag Eleven:-

 Stage 3 Completed!  Fitting to Stages 1 and 2...

 Stages 1-3 completed with Eleven bags.
Bag Twelve (and last):-

 CSM!

 With Escape Tower!

 The Saturn V complete...

 Dioramas...

 Lunar Lander - the Eagle has landed...

 Splashdown!

Ta-da!

The Apollo 11 mission took place in July 1969.  The model has 1969 pieces (see box).

For more about the mission, see the Wikipedia article here.