Seeing Woodstock having fun in the warm evening air with a few choice toys in the garden, reminded me that i'd done the very same thing a few years ago .When I was at school and used to smuggle Spacex into class, the playground had a couple of small holes in the tarmac which always reminded me of craters. On the back of the Triang Spacex cards, were ltitle photos of the toys in a background setting and the Prospector, MEV and Cricket all seemed to have been shot on a coloured, rocky landscape. I used to love trying to re-create these scenes in the playground.
Messing about with a Prospector in the soil in the garden then got me thinking about the scale of the settings and whether the fine soil might look a little like moondust, so I fished out my Sword Prospector too!
As id been customising a few spare spacex in the fledgling Wotanic Workshop, I brought them out too for a photoshoot, together with a few other bits and pieces. The Mole was a natural choice along with a die cast Xabungle Galliar robot and a Firebat fighter.
Neighbours probably thought (and still do) that I was barmy, but it took me back to those sunny days in the garden and in the playground! Priceless!
Pics - top: Iron Legion/Majorette Firebat, Xabungle Galliar, Manned Prospector, Lunar Command Vehicle, Long Range Needle Probe, Galliar, die cast Mole, Sword Prospector and Lunar Recovery Vehicle MK1 with escape pod.
Messing about with a Prospector in the soil in the garden then got me thinking about the scale of the settings and whether the fine soil might look a little like moondust, so I fished out my Sword Prospector too!
As id been customising a few spare spacex in the fledgling Wotanic Workshop, I brought them out too for a photoshoot, together with a few other bits and pieces. The Mole was a natural choice along with a die cast Xabungle Galliar robot and a Firebat fighter.
Neighbours probably thought (and still do) that I was barmy, but it took me back to those sunny days in the garden and in the playground! Priceless!
Pics - top: Iron Legion/Majorette Firebat, Xabungle Galliar, Manned Prospector, Lunar Command Vehicle, Long Range Needle Probe, Galliar, die cast Mole, Sword Prospector and Lunar Recovery Vehicle MK1 with escape pod.
Great pictures Wotan. I can't get enough of those Spacex toys!
ReplyDeleteThey look good on the terraformed moon!
Your Mole looks pretty damn cool too!
Yep, lovely models, WOTAN!
ReplyDeleteDid any of your school friends have SPACEX,or were you the only one?
my best mate had the only other spacex 2 series that I ever saw. He was a serious collector too. He found my first Booster Rocket and i never believed him till he showed me!
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