The Airfix One Small Step For Man... boxed set came out in 2019, for the 50th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing in 1969. It is a large Gift Set, in 1/72nd scale.
The set is numbered A50106. It contains the 1/72nd scale Lunar Module kit (copyright date 1970), and the HO/OO Astronauts from 1971.
All are moulded in white plastic - hard plastic for the LEM, and soft plastic for the figures. There is also a vac-formed Lunar surface in light grey plastic.
Being a Gift Set there are 8 small pots of acrylic paint, 2 paint brushes, and a small tube of cement. The box top shows the LEM and two Astronauts on the Moon, while the small photo to the side shows the LEM on the vac-formed base, with the Astronauts set below.
Oddly, the box says 16 Astronauts with Equipment, but there are 17 in the box. Two come with the LEM, and 15 in the Astronauts set.
This set was listed in the Airfix catalogue from 2019 to 2021. I was lucky enough to find this set on special, and snapped it up.
Is it a kit you have or had?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
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Oddly enough, I have just posted about this kit on my space books blog, along withthe astronauts! Ive got the original LEM kit, which I am hoping to build some time next year. Bill
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a lotta fun. I had the US Revell kit of the Apollo capsule and LEM, with that weird oval-shaped moon base, but boy did I have fun with that one! SFZ
ReplyDeleteI had a kit way back when, with a LEM, capsule, the uh 'supply' unit just below the capsule, and the clamshell section below that where the LEM rode. It was incredible.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, my Airfix purchases tended to lean towards the American Civil War and WWII stuff. At the time my interest in anything space was more along larger sizes like Marx's 54mm range and so on. Still, this kit would now make an interesting addition to the collection
ReplyDeleteI had the original Airfix LEM kit as a kid. I remember being somewhat perturbed by the protective blast shrouds on the down facing Attitude Thrusters, which weren't featured on the real spacecraft!
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