MORE APOLLO 11 SPACECRAFT KITS FROM DRAGON - AND THIS TIME THEY’RE IN BIG 1:48 SCALE
Dragon of Hong Kong has added a pair of 1:48 scale Apollo 11 kits to its excellent - and expanding - range of real-space models. Both kits are enlarged versions of previous spacecraft made to 1:72 scale. These big-scale spacecraft models are more or less straightforward enlargements of the 1:72 scale originals, so any comments on the smaller versions also apply here, but a bit larger! It also means that slight faults apparent in the smaller kits are somewhat enlarged here, but they still look the part. One kit into two Unlike the 1:72 kit, in which you got all the Apollo 11 modules - Command (CM), Service (SM) and Lunar (LM) - in a single box, here they have been split into two separate items, so one kit contains the Command and Service Modules (CSM), the other the Lunar Module. Bagged components for the LM, showing the landing leg gold finish. Slight changes The CSM kit follows its smaller 1:72 scale counterpart closely, but some mods appear to have been done to improve constructi...