‘What if’ scenarios are a favourite with many modellers, especially the ‘Luftwaffe 1946’ brigade (SMN is what-if central, so the plea here is guilty, m’lud), so when Pegasus Hobbies brings to market a 1:72 scale Apollo 27 model, it’s a max-interest event.
The Apollo 27 is a good size model, scaling out at some 254 mm (10 in) high when sitting on its outriggers, pointed at the great beyond. A neat bubble canopy reveals the pilot-astronaut and all-in-all the A27 is well worth adding to your collection, especially so because you can display it with any current-generation 1:72 models.
So far as styling goes, Apollo 27 is perhaps a little retro, owing more perhaps to rocket designs of the 1950s era than those of the post-Apollo 11 age. But that’s carping - the idea is ace, the execution OK, the choice of scale top. All aerospace fans should have one!
Visit Pegasus Hobbies here, and UK online supplier Frontier Models here.
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How about the Apollo 27 as a diecast model or a collector's toy apart from the plastic kit?
ReplyDeleteAre there any diecasts of future manned spacecraft to Mars? Like the Nerva rocket? The hobby stores are literally brimming with plastic kits of the Ariane 5, Apollo 11 etc. To date, the only superb diecast models have been Dragon models 1:400 Saturn 5 and the Corgi diecasts of the Apollo moon lander and orbiter. But sadly, diecasts are hard to find.
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