CEV to be made commercially available

Don't jump the gun on this CEV model. That is what Revell did back in
the 1960s with their 1/72 scale CSM molds, which were forever locked
into the incorrect Apollo Block 1 configuration.

Matthew Ota

On 16 Oct 2005 22:07:53 -0700, "Matthew Ota"
wrote:

Don't jump the gun on this CEV model. That is what Revell did back in
the 1960s with their 1/72 scale CSM molds, which were forever locked
into the incorrect Apollo Block 1 configuration.

....No ****. And rather than correct the mold, they simply reused it
for every single 1/72nd scale kit that required a CSM stack. Hell,
their 1/48th scale version was also a Block I, which is why the
Monogram see-thru version sold far better even if the "kapton" on the
outside was the wrong color.

OM

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OM wrote:

...No ****. And rather than correct the mold, they simply reused it
for every single 1/72nd scale kit that required a CSM stack.


1/96th scale IIRC, this was from the days of box scale, where everything
was scaled to fit in the same-sized box.
Airfix did a 1/72 scale LM, and a nifty little set of HO scale Apollo
astronauts in polyethylene.

Pat

Matthew Ota wrote:

Don't jump the gun on this CEV model. That is what Revell did back in
the 1960s with their 1/72 scale CSM molds, which were forever locked
into the incorrect Apollo Block 1 configuration.



This is not really a problem. The investment in tooling needed for a
resin kit such as this is many orders of magnitude lower than for a
high-pressure injection molded kit. And besides... it'll be *years*
before a final configuration is settled upon.

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