Post by Jason Thompson on Sept 12, 2009 18:21:34 GMT -4
I saw these in a local hobby shop and thought I'd pick them up, expecting a little bit of novelty and some poor plastic replicas that would fall apart after a day or so.
www.quayimports.co.uk/fp066_command_module.html
www.quayimports.co.uk/fp067_lunar_lander.html
I was pleasantly surprised to find that actually they are remarkable good replicas of the Apollo CSM and LM. They're made of pretty solid plastic, the pieces fit together nice and tightly so you don't have to hold it together with both hands to pick it up. The pieces are well made so they do only fit together one way, but there's more of a challenge in there than I expected, which was nice. Following are some (admittedly pretty poor) photos to show just how good they are.
Note: the scale of the completed puzzles is 1:96
Here are the pieces of each puzzle:
Cool feature number 1: the command and service modules are actually seperate complete parts, as are the ascent and descent stages of the LM...
...but they fit firmly together to make the complete spacecraft:
Cool feature number 2: despite being sold separately the two spacecraft lock together quite nicely so you can make the complete stack as it flew to the Moon.
Cool feature number 3: unlike many inexpensive toy versions of these things, they even included the RCS plume deflectors on the descent stage!
Just thought I'd share, as these are the best cheap kids' toy versions of Apollo spacecraft I've seen. They do a Saturn V as well, which I might have to get too....
www.quayimports.co.uk/fp066_command_module.html
www.quayimports.co.uk/fp067_lunar_lander.html
I was pleasantly surprised to find that actually they are remarkable good replicas of the Apollo CSM and LM. They're made of pretty solid plastic, the pieces fit together nice and tightly so you don't have to hold it together with both hands to pick it up. The pieces are well made so they do only fit together one way, but there's more of a challenge in there than I expected, which was nice. Following are some (admittedly pretty poor) photos to show just how good they are.
Note: the scale of the completed puzzles is 1:96
Here are the pieces of each puzzle:
Cool feature number 1: the command and service modules are actually seperate complete parts, as are the ascent and descent stages of the LM...
...but they fit firmly together to make the complete spacecraft:
Cool feature number 2: despite being sold separately the two spacecraft lock together quite nicely so you can make the complete stack as it flew to the Moon.
Cool feature number 3: unlike many inexpensive toy versions of these things, they even included the RCS plume deflectors on the descent stage!
Just thought I'd share, as these are the best cheap kids' toy versions of Apollo spacecraft I've seen. They do a Saturn V as well, which I might have to get too....
