So very much not in time for the 50th anniversary of Collins being left alone some of Dragon's various 1/72 Apollo kits got a new batch. So here's Columbia built up waiting for Eagle before primer. Command module went together well enough, the service module on the other hand was eight parts to the main body that needed to go together more or less in one go and fit here wasn't exactly brilliant, nor were the instructions terribly clear. Then we get to the manoeuvring jets and here Dragon really shows their speciality as these are made up of various bits form the D sprue. Except these have attachment points that aren't even remotely like what they should be to for the SM. Like, seriously, it should just have a small tab and instead there's this large angled chunk of plastic three times the size of the block that's supposed to protrude form the surface. And that's when I suddenly notice a shape much like that over on the other side of the manual, for the lander. Not that I had the part number or some other letter on the sprue, it simply turns out that there are two sprue D here, one for the LM and one for the SM, each with four manoeuvring jet blocks and nothing else. (Taking a closer look at things I notice that this is repeated for B and C, but there the parts are very obviously for the LM or the SM/CM so I had just grabbed the right sprues form the start there.) Havign then picked the right sprue D I have one each of mounting blocks D1, D2, D4 and D5, plus a bunch nozzles numbered D3. The manual meanwhile calls for one of D1, three of D5, and for a mix of nozzle parts D2, D3 and D4.
Sure, this kind of thing might have been appropriate for a Mars Climate Orbiter kit, but...
>>9009882I built their Tiger a few years back, an ok kit. People taking liberties with the manual's order of assembly be warned though, being a snap-fit affair various things will be meant to block the movement of other things in ways not normally expect from a Tiger.