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While I was recently preparing a blog article for the Jetspace Pulsair set, I discovered that the accessories for the toy contained one of the tiniest spacemen that I had ever come across, barely 6mm high. This in turn started a chain of thought which led to me rooting about through my many collections of toys to find other spacemen and astronaut figures, with a view towards creating a comparison chart. It was only after setting up a few that I could easily find and photographing them, that I realised the futility of the idea. Although the composite photograph above does show a rough comparison of figures from the tiny Jetspace man at 6mm to the large Harry Stamper Armageddon figure at about 18 cm, it really doesnt come remotely close to doing justice to our humble friend, the toy spaceman. This blog has mostly been about the wonders of space toys, rockets, crawlers, gliders, buggies... et al. But what about their trusty pilots ? For every rocket or spaceship that was made there were a dozen spacemen to pilot it, in all shapes an sizes, colours and poses.

I have only a miniscule portion of this vast force of brave astronauts, but im sure there are collectors and enthusiasts reading this who have many, many more examples to show.

So, im sending out a request to all you space toy fans out there - help me collate a gallery of spacemen and astronaut figures to show on the blog and as a resource for collectors and astrophiles everywhere! Lets put a small limit on it - any figure from before 1970 and below 6" - i.e up to, but not including Major Matt Mason as Matt has been celebrated in much greater detail elsewhere.

Lets see your Archers, your Cherileas, your Timpos and your Elastolins! Send me a simple digital photo of any figure against a plain background, full frame, close up. Are you up to the challenge ? My contact detail is in the Wotan Workshop sidebar >>>>