Found on eBay: Apollo Extension System Nasa Contractor Model Set

Again with the “Nasa…”

Edit: Auction NOT over, highest bid of $510.00 (didn’t make reserve).

Here’s a lovely old contractor model set from the Apollo Program. Not a Topping Model or a PacMin Model either. This really consists of three seperate models: The CSM or Command and Service Module, the Resource Module, and the two-part Laboratory / Habitation Module. The Command Module is one piece with the Service Module, and does not come off. There is not much I could find out about the Apollo Extension System, except that it never flew in this form and morphed into Skylab eventually…so this is an interesting picture of might of have been. Judging by my careful measuring and computing, this set is in the 1/40th scale. The CSM and the LAB modules are HEAVY. I would say these are made of some sort fo heavy resin and metal with plastic(?) elements. ..it looks like there is no damage, except for some fading on some of the decals, and some of the fuel tanks look like they have maybe been re-glued at one time or another. Some yellowing here and there…but overall, in amazing shape for something they were cooking up over 40 years ago. The CSM slides down on a brass post from the base, and the two other modules have a center female dock for a pin at the top of the CSM. There is a small cone that covers the tip-top, which was a lucky find in and of itself. The pictures really dont do this set justice…Nasa made these for presentation purposes and show and tell, and were not intended for ownership by the general public.

This seems to be a model of one of the designs presented here: