PANCAKE SATURDAY

There's no bread in the breadbin today so Missus Moonbase made pancakes for breakfast.

She's an early riser so the pancakes were stacked up by the time I got up.

Coffee. Pancakes with sugar. Mmmm. The food of the gods. Surely?

Do you agree, pancakes are the best?

How do you like yours?

CRICKET RACER

This little Spanish racer made me look twice. For a secundo I thought it was a SpaceX Cricket only green!

I was actually thinking of this proper green Cricket knockoff.

Have you got anything like this?

LIPSTICK LUNAR TRANSPORTER: CALAMITY AND RECOVERY

Disaster struck my lipstick transporter.

I thought I'd struck gold with these orange plastic ties.

But super-gluing them round the cockpit proved too much for my meagre skills. The glue has also fogged the inside of the translucent cockpit which there's nothing I can do about now.

It looked like a dog's dinner!

I ripped it off, cleaned off the dried glue and started again with the pesky cockpit border. 

In the end I used an elastic band. Not brilliant to look at but simple to use!

With a decent second wind I replaced the plastic exhaust with a metal one purloined from an old e-cig my Missus chucked.

I also began the chassis for the wheels using orange plastic from a Jaffa Cake box.

I also took Wotan's advice and ditched the original long nosecone and created a new shorter one using another Sharpie pen lid.

This session's efforts were rounded off with a metal ring edging the main fuselage,

Next,

the wheel braces and the wheels. Blimey!

Wish me luck!

JUST DESERTS

Years before Star Wars there was this brilliant vision of a desert planet in space.

Its the card art for the SpaceX Apollo Tracker.

A toy I never had, there's just something Tatooine'ish about it.

Its its simplicity that I really love.

To find something similar in Star Wars I've opted for a still from the animated series of Droids but I imagine an early comic version of SW has simple colour illustrations of Tatooine in it too.

Have you any fave desert planet art or toys?

Has anyone been to the desert set where Tatooine was staged?

MYSTERY MAN COVER

More Ciencia Ficcion.

The guy in front of the cliff with the blaster looks very familiar.

Any ideas readers?