Django nested QuerySet yielding nothing - django

Question

I am using Django 1.8 with Postgres 9.2 on a Windows 8 machine.
I have two pieces of nearly identical code from two of my projects. One works and the other doesn't.
Here's the code that works:
# views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from models import Artist, Track
def music(request):
artists = Artist.objects.all().order_by('orderName')
artistTrackCollections = []
for artist in artists:
artist.tracks = Track.objects.filter(artist=artist).order_by('order')
artistTrackCollections.append(artist)
return render(request, 'music.html', {'artistTrackCollections': artistTrackCollections,})
And the relevant template code:
{% for artist in artistTrackCollections %}
<dl>
<dt>
{% if artist.website %}
<h2>{{ artist.name }}</h2>
{% else %}
<h2>{{ artist.name }}</h2>
{% endif %}
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
{% for track in artist.tracks %}
<li>“{{ track.title }}”
<i>({{ track.album.title }})</i>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
{% endfor %}
Now here's pretty much the exact same code from a different project of mine that doesn't work anymore:
def index(request):
productList = PartModel.objects.filter(isBuild=True, isActive=True).order_by('name')
productCollection = []
for product in productList:
product.part_list = product.buildpart.all().order_by('family__type')[:5]
productCollection.append(product)
return render(request, 'index.html', { 'productCollection': productCollection, })
and its corresponding template:
{% for product in productCollection %}
<p>{{ product.name }}
<p>${{ product.price }}
<ul>
{% for part in product.part_list %}
<li>{{ part.family.type.name }} | {{ part.name }}
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endfor %}
This code used to work but now it doesn't. In the code that works I succeed in going through each artist and attaching that artist's tracks. In the code that fails I try to go through each PartModel instance that is a build and get that PartModel instance's corresponding parts. They are identical as far as I can tell. productCollection gets populated but the part_list data for some reason is blank. This leads me to believe the problem is with this line:
product.part_list = product.buildpart.all().order_by('family__type')[:5]
But I cannot discern the difference from this line:
artist.tracks = Track.objects.filter(artist=artist).order_by('order')
Thanks in advance for any help!