Houston, We Don’t Have A Problem

 As reported a few weeks back, Woodsy bought me this lovely LEM model from an antique store. It was simply marked Revell on the base and looking up the Revell Apollo kits, I decided it must be the pair of LEM and CSM, but without the CSM and stand shown here.

A few days later, I recalled a bag of parts I had bought on ebay and the fact that it contained a small Apollo CSM. I dug them out and it looks like the correct scale for the set, even though its hard to tell as the model had been inexpertly assembled some while back.

Its covered in adhesive and the crew module has been glued on incorrectly. Unfortunately, the plastic is really brittle, so theres no way to separate the parts. Still, its nice to have a complete set!

The bag of parts also held a small red Mercury capsule, parts of another and a very damaged Gemini capsule, along with a few other parts. The plastic is fatigued and looks almost water damaged. It may have been immersed in some kind if solution to separate the parts, but it seems to have eroded the plastic too.

In a strange twist of synchronicity, while I was dealing with the Apollo model, I spotted a super rare Spacex II Apollo CSM on ebay too! Missing the small antenna and with Michael Collins loose in the cab, It came home for an absolute song. Ive found a similar style antenna - if a little large - to finish it off.

Its perfectly in scale with my Aoshima LEM kit that I made up in mock Spacex colours too!